PNAS

Protein aggregation in salt solutions [Systems Biology]

M. Kastelic, Y. V. Kalyuzhnyi, B. Hribar-Lee, K. A. Dill, V. Vlachy.
Protein aggregation is broadly important in diseases and in formulations of biological drugs. Here, we develop a theoretical model for reversible protein–protein aggregation in salt solutions. We treat proteins as hard spheres having square-well-energy binding sites, using Wertheim’s thermodynamic perturbation theory. The necessary condition required for such modeling to be...