A comparison study of the interaction between β-lactoglobulin and retinol at two different conditions: spectroscopic and molecular modeling approaches

Abstract

The interaction between bovin β-Lactoglobulin (β-LG) and retinol at two different pH values was investigated by multispectroscopic, zeta potential, molecular modeling, and conductometry measurements. The steady state and polarization fluorescence spectroscopy revealed that complex formation at two different pH values could occur through a remarkable static quenching. According to fluorescence quenching, one set of binding site at pH 2 and two sets of binding sites at pH 7 were introduced for binding of retinol to β-LG that show the enhancement of saturation score of β-LG to retinol in dimmer condition. The polarization fluorescence analysis represented that there is more affinity between β-LG and retinol at pH 7 rather than at pH 2. The effect of retinol on β-LG was studied by UV-visible, circular dichroism (CD), and synchronous fluorescence, which indicated that retinol induced more structural changes on β-LG at pH 7. β-LG-retinol complex formation at two different pH values was recorded via applying resonance light scattering (RLS) and zeta potential. Conductometry and RLS showed two different behaviors of interaction between β-LG and retinol at two different pH values; therefore, dimmer formation played important roles in different behaviors of interaction between β-LG and retinol. The zeta potential was the implied combination of electrostatic and hydrophobic forces which are involved in β-LG-retinol complex at two different pH values, and the hydrophobic interactions play a dominant role in complex formation. Molecular modeling was approved by all experimental results. The acquired results suggested that monomer and dimmer states of β-LG can be induced by retinol with different behaviors.

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