Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 21(3), p. 8016, 2013
DOI: 10.1039/c3ra00061c
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Peptide dendrimers are screened for “artificial chaperone” (protein refolding) activity by a sensitive fluorescence based assay. The refolding with largest dendrimer is found to help in recovering biological activity of >90% in the case of unfolded lipases and amylases. The refolding yields decrease down to 14% with a decrease in the complexity and hydrophobicity of the dendron/dendrimer. CD spectroscopy confirms the correct refolding in terms of secondary structure contents of the proteins. The DLS data indicates that presence of the dendrons/dendrimers facilitates protein refolding by preventing the aggregation of proteins.