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Abstract

Glycine betaine is mostly known as an osmoprotectant. It is involved in the osmotic adaptation of eukaryotic and bacterial cells, and accumulates up to 1 M inside cells subjected to an osmotic upshock. Since, like other osmolytes, it can act as a protein stabilizer, its thermoprotectant properties were investigated. , like protein chaperones such as DnaK, glycine betaine and choline protect citrate synthase against thermodenaturation, and stimulate its renaturation after urea denaturation. , the internal concentration of glycine betaine is neither increased nor decreased after heat shock (this contrasts with a massive increase after osmotic upshock). However, even in exponential-phase bacteria grown in usual minimal salts media, the internal glycine betaine concentration attains levels (around 50 mM) which can protect proteins against thermodenaturation . Furthermore, glycine betaine and choline restore the viability of a deletion mutant at 42 °C, suggesting that glycine betaine not only acts as a thermoprotectant , but also acts as a thermoprotectant for cells .

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