Changes in Lysozyme due to Interaction with Vaporized Hexanal

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In order to elucidate the mechanism of the alteration of proteins induced by vaporized aldehydes, unmodified and chemically-modified lysozymes were exposed in the solid state to vaporized hexanal at 50°C and 5.8 or 75% relative humidity (RH). On exposure at 75%RH, the unmodified lysozyme exhibited polymerization, browning, loss of solubility, fluorescence production and impairment of lysine, tryptophan and methionine residues. Methionine residues seemed to be oxidized to methionine sulfoxide residues. The polymerization did not proceed at 5.8RH. All the above alterations were almost completely prevented by the removal of oxygen from the reaction cells. Acetylation of lysozyme retarded these alterations fairly well except that the impairment of tryptophan residues was unaffected. On the basis of all the results it is suggested that at the first step the concerned reaction essentially requires hexanal derivatives such as peroxyhexanoic acid and/or related radicals induced through the reaction with oxygen. The second step seems to consist at least of two routes which are independent of each other and require water. One route is assumed to be an amino-carbonyl reaction involving lysine residues. The other route seems responsible for the attack on tryptophan and methionine residues through oxidation involving the radicals.
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