Abstract
Many deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are currently being explored as environment-friendly media for biorelated applications. As an understanding of the effect of these solvents on the structure of biomolecules is crucial for these applications, we study how two DESs comprising trimethylglycine (TMG) and ethylene glycol (EG) or glycerol (GL) influence the structural stability and conformational dynamics of cytochrome c (Cytc) using single-molecule-based fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) technique and several other ensemble-based biophysical methods. The FCS studies on A488-labeled Cytc enable an estimation of the size (20.5 ± 1.5 Å) of the protein and capture its conformational dynamics (54 ± 2 μs) in aqueous buffered solution. It is observed that both size and conformational dynamics of the protein are influenced in the presence of the DESs, but this effect is more pronounced in the case of TMG-EG. The ensemble measurements on both labeled and wild-type Cytc reveal that the protein structure is unfolded completely by TMG-EG, whereas the structure is slightly altered by TMG-GL. The results suggest that the behavior of Cytc in hydrated DESs is determined by the strength of interactions between the DES constituents as well as that between the constituents and the water molecules present in the system.
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