The interplay of the glass transition with liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a subject of intense debate. We use the scattering invariant Q to probe how approaching the glass transition affects the shape of LLPS boundaries in the temperature/volume fraction plane. Two protein systems featuring kinetic arrest with a lower and an upper critical solution temperature phase behavior, respectively, are studied varying the quench depth. Using Q we noninvasively identify system-dependent differences for the effect of glass formation on the LLPS boundary. The glassy dense phase appears to enter the coexistence region for the albumin-YCl3 system, whereas it follows the equilibrium binodal for the γ-globulin-PEG system.

Interplay between Glass Formation and Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Revealed by the Scattering Invariant / Da Vela, S.; Begam, N.; Dyachok, D.; Schaufele, R. S.; Matsarskaia, O.; Braun, M. K.; Girelli, A.; Ragulskaya, A.; Mariani, A.; Zhang, F.; Schreiber, F.. - In: THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS. - ISSN 1948-7185. - 11:17(2020), pp. 7273-7278. [10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02110]

Interplay between Glass Formation and Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Revealed by the Scattering Invariant

Mariani A.;
2020-01-01

Abstract

The interplay of the glass transition with liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a subject of intense debate. We use the scattering invariant Q to probe how approaching the glass transition affects the shape of LLPS boundaries in the temperature/volume fraction plane. Two protein systems featuring kinetic arrest with a lower and an upper critical solution temperature phase behavior, respectively, are studied varying the quench depth. Using Q we noninvasively identify system-dependent differences for the effect of glass formation on the LLPS boundary. The glassy dense phase appears to enter the coexistence region for the albumin-YCl3 system, whereas it follows the equilibrium binodal for the γ-globulin-PEG system.
2020
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