Hard sphere-like glass transition in eye lens α-crystallin solutions.
- Foffi G Laboratoire de Physique de Solides, UMR 8502, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay, France;
- Savin G Physics Department and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland;
- Bucciarelli S Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden;
- Dorsaz N Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; and.
- Thurston GM School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623-5603 georgemthurston@gmail.com anna.stradner@fkem1.lu.se.
- Stradner A Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden; georgemthurston@gmail.com anna.stradner@fkem1.lu.se.
- Schurtenberger P Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden;
- 2014-11-12
Published in:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - 2014
alpha crystallin
glass transition
mode-coupling theory
molecular dynamics
scattering
Animals
Cattle
Lens, Crystalline
Scattering, Radiation
Viscosity
alpha-Crystallins
English
We study the equilibrium liquid structure and dynamics of dilute and concentrated bovine eye lens α-crystallin solutions, using small-angle X-ray scattering, static and dynamic light scattering, viscometry, molecular dynamics simulations, and mode-coupling theory. We find that a polydisperse Percus-Yevick hard-sphere liquid-structure model accurately reproduces both static light scattering data and small-angle X-ray scattering liquid structure data from α-crystallin solutions over an extended range of protein concentrations up to 290 mg/mL or 49% vol fraction and up to ca. 330 mg/mL for static light scattering. The measured dynamic light scattering and viscosity properties are also consistent with those of hard-sphere colloids and show power laws characteristic of an approach toward a glass transition at α-crystallin volume fractions near 58%. Dynamic light scattering at a volume fraction beyond the glass transition indicates formation of an arrested state. We further perform event-driven molecular dynamics simulations of polydisperse hard-sphere systems and use mode-coupling theory to compare the measured dynamic power laws with those of hard-sphere models. The static and dynamic data, simulations, and analysis show that aqueous eye lens α-crystallin solutions exhibit a glass transition at high concentrations that is similar to those found in hard-sphere colloidal systems. The α-crystallin glass transition could have implications for the molecular basis of presbyopia and the kinetics of molecular change during cataractogenesis.
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- DOI 10.1073/pnas.1406990111
- PMID 25385638
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