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A comparative study on the extraction effects of common agents on collagen-based binders in mural paintings

Heritage Science volume 9, Article number: 45 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

In this paper, a comparative study was conducted on the extraction effects of six agents for collagen-based mural painting binders. These agents were used to extract the residual proteins in the non-aged and thermal aged samples. The protein extraction efficiencies of different extracting agents were quantitatively determined by bicinchoninic acid (BCA) method, and then processed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The impact of the extraction process on the protein structure was characterized by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), ultraviolet absorption spectrum (UV) and circular dichroism (CD). The results showed that, for both non-aged and aged samples, the extraction efficiency of 2 M guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) was significantly higher than the other five agents, with less damage to the protein structure during the extraction process.

Introduction

Protecting cultural heritage is an important calling to ensure that future generations have the opportunity to appreciate them [1]. As an essential part of cultural heritage and a treasure of human civilization, mural paintings can reflect the characteristics of religion, society, clothing, architecture and other aspects of the corresponding historical period [2]. Since the materials and production techniques of murals are closely related to the specific regions and periods, scientific examination of mural paintings can provide valuable information on art, culture, science and technology.

In composition, paint is formed by dispersing pigments in binders, so that binding media can hold individual powder particles together and attach them to the base layers [3, 4], determining the optical and mechanical properties of the paint [5]. In addition to playing an important role in food [6,7,8] and medicine [9], collagen is also one of the most important materials for making mural painting binders [10]. Specifically, these binders are predominantly gelatin, which is the soluble state of collagen through the extraction from the source material, heat, or a combination of the two factors. They are likely a rich mixture of collagen-based peptides in a variety of structural states ranging from partially unfolded triple helices to random coils. Hence, accurate identification of proteinaceous degradation residues in ancient mural paintings could reveal the original types of binders, and then the rich cultural, technical and social connotations could be explored. It can not only show the craftsmanship of mural paintings, but also guide their restoration, storage and display.

There are three common methods for protein identification, including proteomics [11,12,13,14,15,16], immunology [17,18,19], and amino acid analysis (AAA) [20, 21]. It should be emphasized that extracting target proteins from paint matrix is a prerequisite for all these identification approaches. As binding media in ancient paintings are prone to degradation and contamination, they are difficult to be extracted, which poses a great challenge to identification. Therefore, it is expected that optimizing the extraction methodology for mural painting binders could effectively improve the success rate and accuracy of identification, and then minimize sampling area of ancient mural paintings.

Reagents routinely used to extract proteinaceous residues from paint samples include trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) [14, 22, 23], Urea [5, 24, 25], guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) [26, 27], ammonia [14, 28, 29] and ammonium bicarbonate (AMBIC) [30,31,32]. Acetic acid is also a potential candidate, as it is commonly used for biological collagen extraction [33, 34], paleontology [35, 36] and food industry [37]. At present, most studies focused on the optimization of post-extraction identification methods [31, 38,39,40], or aimed at enriching the sequence database [41]. Additionally, previous studies on the optimization of protein extraction process mainly compared the extraction efficiency of different extraction agents through the results of mass spectrometry, and the research objects were egg albumin [14] and food residue proteins [42] instead of collagen/gelatin.

In this paper, the extraction efficiency of different agents and possible changes in molecular structure of extracted protein were studied directly after extraction. Samples were made by mixing Fe2O3 pigment with four respective animal glues that were commonly used as binders in historical paintings [5, 43,44,45]. As a routine way of artificial aging for paint binders [46,47,48], the samples were thermally aged, then subjected to different extracting agents. BCA method was used for quantitative analysis of extraction efficiency, and sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), ultraviolet absorption spectrum (UV) and circular dichroism (CD) were used to characterize the influence of extraction process on the structure of protein, so as to determine the most suitable extracting agent for collagen-based binders in mural painting.

Materials and methods

Materials

Bovine bone glue (No. 63000), cowhide glue (No. 63020), rabbit skin glue (No. 63028) and bookbinder glue (No. 63060) were purchased from Kremer (Germany). Fe2O3 powder was provided by FUCHEN (China). Tetramethylethylenediamine (TEMED), Urea, GuHCl, AMBIC, TFA, ammonia, sodium dihydrogen phosphate (NaH2PO4), dibasic sodium phosphate (Na2HPO4), sodium tartrate, Bicinchonic acid disodium salt, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and ammonium persulfate were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (USA). Methanol, ethanol, acetic acid, phosphoric acid, sodium hydroxide, sodium bicarbonate, anhydrous sodium carbonate and copper sulfate pentahydrate were purchased from Tianli (China). Coomassie brilliant blue G-250, Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA), collagen I, protein marker (43–200 kDa), loading buffer, Tris-Glycine running buffer, 30% acrylamide solution, 1 M Tris HCl (pH = 6.8) and 1.5 M Tris HCl (pH = 8.8) were supplied by Solarbio (China).

Sample preparation

Non-aged samples

The above four kinds of animal glue were fully dissolved in deionized water using a vortex (QL-901, Kylin-Bell) at 40 ℃ respectively, prepared into solutions of 30 mg/mL concentration. After cooling to room temperature, the solutions were centrifuged (by 3K15, SIGMA, at 5000 r/min, 10 min, 20 ℃). Then the supernatants were completely mixed with Fe2O3 powder (a regularly used pigment in mural paintings [49, 50]), and the weight ratio of solute in the solution and pigments was about 1:2. Aliquots of 100 μL mixture were transferred onto glass slides, and placed in darkness at room temperature for 6 months to obtain non-aged samples.

Aged samples

The six aged samples were obtained by placing the samples prepared with rabbit skin glue into a circularly air oven (DHG-9030a, Huitai) at 100 ℃ for 0, 300, 600, 1000, 1500 and 2000 h. Based on previous studies [51,52,53], the thermal degradation process of binders should follow Arrhenius Equation:

$${\text{k}} = {\text{A exp}}\left( {\frac{ - E}{{RT}}} \right)$$
(1)

wherein E is the activation energy, A is the pre-factor, R is the gas constant, and T is the absolute temperature. At any aging temperature (t) higher than room temperature (25 ℃), the accelerating factor F would be:

$${\text{F}} = \frac{{k_{t} }}{{k_{{25^{ \circ } {\text{C}}}} }}$$
(2)

Therefore:

$${\text{F}} = {\text{exp}}\left( { - { }\frac{E}{R} \left( {\frac{1}{t} - \frac{1}{298}} \right)} \right)$$
(3)

wherein E could be derived from previous research on degradation process of gelatin to be around 85 kJ/mol [54, 55], t in this paper is 100 ℃. According to the above theoretical calculation, samples aged at 100 ℃ for 2000 h were comparable to approximately 225 years at room temperature. Considering the impact of inorganic pigment, the actual aging equivalent would be longer. The sample composition and treatment conditions are shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Composition and treatment conditions of samples
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Protein extraction

Six commonly used extraction agents for animal glue were selected: 0.1% TFA, 2 M GuHCl, 2 M Urea, 0.5 M Acetic acid, 2 M ammonia and 0.1 M AMBIC. Samples were separated from slides and mixed with 300 μL of each extraction agent, deionized water was also mixed with samples as control. The mixtures were subjected to 15 min ultrasonic treatment, then heated at 60 ℃ for 2 h, followed by another ultrasonic treatment for 45 min. After cooling to room temperature and centrifugation (15 min, 20 ℃, 5000 r/min), the supernatants were used in the following steps.

Quantitative determination of protein concentration

The principle of BCA-Cu method is that Cu2+ can be reduced by protein to Cu+, forming a purple complex with bicinchoninic acid under alkaline condition. After the reaction, change in absorbance reaches maximum at 562 nm, showing a linear relationship with protein concentration in a certain range. BCA method proposed by Smith et al. [56] was optimized. To elucidate possible influence of different standard proteins and solvents, BSA and collagen I were used as standard proteins for comparison, and respective standard curves were plotted with each extraction agents. The extracted supernatants were diluted with 1× PBS, reaching 10 times of the original volume. BCA reagent and Cu reagent were blended into BCA working solution at a volume ratio of 50:1. The BCA working solution and the diluted solutions were mixed at a volume ratio of 10:1 and heated at 37 ℃ for 30 min. After chilling to room temperature, a micro-ultraviolet spectrophotometer (DS-11, Denovix) was utilized to quantitatively determine the protein concentration. Each experiment was repeated in triplicate.

Statistical analysis

Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was employed to statistically analyze and calculate the effects of extracting agent type, animal glue type and aging time on extraction efficiency. SPSS 25 (IBM) was used and 95% confidence interval (p < 0.05) was set.

Microstructural analysis

Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE)

According to Laemmli’s method [57], SDS-PAGE was used to characterize the purity and molecular weight of the extracted proteins. The extracted protein solutions (40 μL) and loading buffer (10 μL) were thoroughly mixed and heated at 100 ℃ for 10 min. After reaching room temperature, the mixtures were centrifugated (13,000 r/min, 3 min). 10 mL of supernatants and 6 μL protein marker were used for electrophoresis under constant voltage, which was 100 V in the range of stacking gel (5%) and 150 V in the range of resolving glue (7%). The gels were stained with Coomassie brilliant blue G-250 for 4 h, then destained for 5 h.

Ultraviolet spectroscopy (UV)

Ultraviolet spectrophotometer (DS-11, Denovix) was applied to test the extracted supernatants with a spectral scan range of 200–400 nm. The optical path length in the transmission measurements was 10 mm. Each extraction agent was employed as baseline for the corresponding protein solution.

Circular dichroism (CD)

Circular dichrograph (ChirascanV100, Applied Photophysics, UK) was used to perform circular dichroism test on the supernatant. Three scans were averaged in a wavelength range from 190 to 260 nm at 25 °C. Each extraction agent was used as baseline for the corresponding protein solution.

Results and discussions

In theory, when making standard curve in colorimetric method, specific proteins and solvents should be adopted according to the corresponding sample compositions [58,59,60]. In some cases, though, a single standard curve was constructed for BCA testing on different protein solutions [61,62,63]. As for collagen and multiple extracting agents, this approach may affect the accuracy of protein concentration test. Therefore, the possible influence of different standard proteins and extraction agents on experimental results should first be explored.

As shown in Fig. 1, the absorbance of collagen I at 562 nm is remarkably lower than BSA at the same concentration, consistent with Duhamel et al. [58]. Proteins react with BCA working solution via reducing amino acids such as tryptophan and tyrosine. In collagen I, there is no tryptophan, and tyrosines are restricted to telopeptides that could possibly be lost during the extraction. As the amount of these amino acids in collagen are evidently less than in BSA, the absorbance of BSA varies more at different concentrations. As the objective of this study is to compare the extraction efficiency of each agent, plotting the standard curve using BSA could make the results more comparable with previous studies [17, 64], without changing the order and gradient of the outcome. Therefore, BSA standard was adopted below.

Fig. 1
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Comparison of absorbance between collagen and BSA at 562 nm

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In order to minimize the interference of different extraction agents on the BCA results, each standard curve should be constructed for corresponding agents. However, the sensitivity and accuracy would be enormously affected by ammonia [65], urea and GuHCl at high concentration [64]. Therefore, dilution of the extracted protein solution 10 times with 1× PBS was attempted, no precipitation occurred, and the BSA solutions for constructing standard curves were prepared accordingly. The specific components are shown in Table 2. At each concentration of BSA solution, extracting agents accounted for 10% of the total volume, which was the same as the protein solution obtained by diluting the supernatant with 1× PBS. As shown in Fig. 2, the linear fitting slope of each curve was relatively close, indicating the interference of the extraction agents to the BCA reaction is nearly eliminated after 10 times of dilution. The slope of control was 1.919, while that of 2 M ammonia was the highest (2.031), suggesting the change of absorbance was related to the pH of solution [66]. The slope of 2 M Urea was the lowest (1.731) because the presence of urea reduces the absorbance of the BCA reaction, consistent with Walker et al. [67].

Table 2 Components of BSA solution at various concentrations for each agent
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Fig. 2
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BCA standard curves of different extraction agents as solvent component (BSA as standard protein)

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The efficiencies of different agents were quantitatively compared using the following approach. The original concentration of animal glue was 30 μg/μL, and the total volume of glue added to each sample was 100 μL, making the mass p of animal glue contained in each sample 3000 μg (30 × 100). The volume of extraction agents for each sample was 300 μL, the dilution ratio of 1× PBS was 10, and the final protein concentration was y μg/μL. Thus, the total mass q of the extracted protein in each sample was 3000y μg (10 × 300 × y).

Make extraction efficiency be η:

$$\eta = \frac{q}{p} \times {1}00\% = \frac{{3000{\text{y}}}}{3000} \times {1}00\% = {\text{y}}$$
(4)

The extraction efficiency of each extracting agent for non-aged samples is illustrated in Fig. 3. The results show that the highest extraction efficiency of the non-aged sample was 38.1% (NAg-3 extracted by 2 M GuHCl), and the lowest was 25.4% (NAg-1 extracted by 2 M ammonia). From the result of MANOVA (shown in Additional file 1: Table S1), the order of extraction efficiency η for different agents was: 2 M GuHCl > 0.5 M acetic acid, 2 M urea > 0.1% TFA > 0.1 M AMBIC > 2 M ammonia, control (p < 0.05).

Fig. 3
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Extraction efficiency η of protein in non-aged samples with different extraction agents

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Unexpectedly, the difference of extraction efficiency between 2 M ammonia and control was not significant (p > 0.05), while the extraction efficiencies of other agents were remarkably higher (p < 0.05). The variation of binder type had no evident effect on the extraction efficiency (p > 0.05), as the main ingredients and production techniques of bovine bone glue (NAg-1), cowhide glue (NAg-2, NAg-4) and rabbit skin glue (NAg-3) are similar, meaning that the polymorphism of collagen caused by species difference had no effect on the results [68]. Therefore, rabbit skin glue (NAg-3) was used in follow-up thermal aging experiment.

In Fig. 4, the extraction efficiencies of different extracting agents for increasingly aged samples were depicted. From the results of MANOVA (see Additional file 1: Table S2), the order of the extraction efficiency η for different agents was: 2 M GuHCl > 0.5 M acetic acid, 2 M urea, 0.1% TFA, 0.1 M AMBIC > 2 M ammonia > control (p < 0.05).

Fig. 4
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Extraction efficiencies η of protein in aged samples with different extraction agents

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The extraction efficiency of 2 M GuHCl was significantly higher than other agents (p < 0.05), and the efficiencies of all six agents were significantly higher than control (p < 0.05). There was no visible difference in extraction efficiencies among 0.5 M acetic acid, 2 M urea, 0.1% TFA and 0.1 M AMBIC (p > 0.05). The effect of aging time on the extraction efficiency was: Non-aged > 300 h > 600 h > 1000 h > 1500 h > 2000 h (p < 0.05).

The protein extraction efficiencies of the long-term aged samples were significantly lower than the short-term aged ones. Specifically, for the non-aged samples, the extraction efficiency of each agent was in the range of 28.1–38.1%, while it was 16.8–24.9% for 1000 h aged samples, and 6.3–13.1% for 2000 h aged ones. This phenomenon indicated that the protein in the glue was pretty much denatured after thermal treatment, contributing to the lower extraction efficiency.

The chemistry resulting from heating is complex, with both bond scission and formation effects. The presence of pigment could also accelerate the protein denaturation process. For example, interaction with Fe2O3 could bring about an increase in random coil [69], and involvement of iron in metal-polypeptide coordination could force the protein into a conformation more easily degraded by thermal process [70]. With the effect of both heating and inorganic pigment, the secondary structure, tertiary structure and quaternary structure of protein in the aged samples were altered, inducing aggregation maintained by electrostatic interaction and hydrophobic bond [71]. Along with molecular chain unfolding, some functional groups enclosed before the thermal treatment were exposed, including chromophores such as C=O, –COOH, –CONH2, and low content of benzene ring, as there are only 1% tyrosine, 2–3% phenylalanine, and no tryptophan in gelatin [72]. As a result, the molecular surface activity was enhanced, and the formation of inter- and intra-molecular cross-links was promoted [73]. Hence, a large number of hydrogen bonds were formed to stabilize the crosslinked structure [74], Schiff bases were also produced between amino groups and carboxylic acids [75]. In general, the level of bond breaking in protein was surpassed by the level of bond formation, fostering aggregation and cross-link [76], leading to higher insolubility of protein and lower extraction efficiencies.

From the data in Fig. 4, the analysis and comparison of the extraction efficiencies of extraction agents under longer aging times would better represent the case of ancient paint samples. Hence, MANOVA was performed on the three groups with aging time of 1000 h, 1500 h and 2000 h (shown in Additional file 1: Table S3), and the order of extraction efficiencies was: 2 M GuHCl > 0.5 M acetic acid, 0.1% TFA > 0.1 M AMBIC > 2 M Urea, 2 M ammonia > control (p < 0.05).

For longer ageing times, the extraction efficiencies of 0.5 M acetic acid, 0.1% TFA, 0.1 M AMBIC and 2 M urea were markedly different, and the extraction efficiency of 2 M urea was remarkably reduced. In addition to the effect on inter- and intra-molecular hydrogen bonds, urea has a strong affinity for amides and peptide bonds, could thus promote the dissolution of some types of protein by destroying amide cross-linking [77]. For seriously aged samples, more deamidation may have impaired the solubilization effect of urea [27].

From the above statistical analysis, the extraction efficiency of 2 M GuHCl was significantly higher than other extraction agents for both non-aged and aged samples. Compared with other agents, GuHCl has a stronger solubilizing effect on hydrophobic amino acid residues by weakening the hydrophobic interactions [78, 79]. Aged samples tend to be more insoluble, owing to the growing aggregation and cross-linking. Besides destroying hydrophobic bonds, GuHCl could also facilitate the breakage of hydrogen bonds and shield the electrostatic effects, thus eliminate the aggregation and cross-linking [80,81,82].

In order to show the extraction efficiency of each agent compared with control, normalization was performed. The extraction efficiency of an agent was known to be η, while that of the control was η0, then relative extraction efficiency η* would be:

$$\eta^{*} = \frac{\eta }{{\eta_{0} }}$$
(5)

It can be seen in Fig. 5 that, except for 2 M urea, there was an upward trend for relative extraction efficiency in each group with the rise of aging time. For example, η* of 2 M GuHCl increased from 1.35 to 2.12 through thermal aging for 2000 h. As protein denaturation became more serious through aging, the level of bond formation was higher than the level of bond breakage, resulting in more insolubility. The extracting agents took effect because of stronger solubilizing ability than control by breaking certain bonds. For example, GuHCl could destroy hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic bonds and electrostatic interactions. TFA, acetic acid, and ammonia could destroy the pH labile crosslinks, leading to the rise of η* [83, 84]. Some aqueous-organic systems, such as methanol and acetonitrile may also have some effects on protein extraction from non-aged samples, due to their attraction to less polar fractions in protein. However, their extraction effects on aged samples could be compromised, due to the lack of ability to eliminate crosslinks. The η* of GuHCl reaches 2.12 for samples aged 2000 h, indicating that the extraction efficiency of GuHCl was more than doubled, compared with deionized water. It is promising that the enhancement of η* will be more significant, in the case of more denaturation and more complex preservation conditions.

Fig. 5
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Relative extraction efficiencies η* of different extraction agents for aged samples

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As shown in Fig. 6, four obvious bands can be seen in all the lanes except lane 7. Among them, there are three bands in the range of 97–130 kDa. From top to bottom, they should be collagen α1 chain (approximately 125 kDa), collagen α2 chain (approximately 115 kDa) [85] and rabbit muscle phosphorylase (approximately 97 kDa) [86]. The band slightly higher than 200 kDa was the collagen β chain. The pattern was the same as the result obtained by Rika Kigawa et al. [87]. The distribution of bands in lanes 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9 was not evidently different from lanes 5 and 10, indicating that all the agents except 2 M ammonia had no remarkable effect on the purity and molecular weight of extracted proteins. It can be noted that the bands on lane 7 are poorly resolved in comparison to those in other lanes, due to the apparent hydrolysis of proteins by 2 M ammonia.

Fig. 6
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The protein electropherogram obtained by extracting Ag-0 with each agent, in which lanes 1 and 6 were marker, lanes 5 and 10 were control, lanes 2–4 correspond to 2 M Urea, 0.5 M Acetic acid, and 2 M GuHCl, lane 7–9 were 2 M ammonia, 0.1 M AMBIC, and 0.1% TFA

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The UV absorption spectra of the proteins in Ag-0 extracted by each agents were shown in Fig. 7. For all the samples, there was a strong peak near 222 nm related to the C=O, –COOH, and –CONH2 groups in gelatin [33, 88, 89], and no peak representing aromatic amino acids at 280 nm [90]. The peak intensities at 220–230 nm for each agent were weaker than control, suggesting that all the agents caused a certain degree of damage to the C=O, –COOH, and –CONH2 groups in the polypeptide chain.

Fig. 7
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UV spectra of protein extracted from Ag-0 by different extraction agents

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In circular dichroism, natural collagen usually has an obvious negative peak in the range of 190–200 nm, and a slight positive peak around 220 nm [91]. Gelatinization could unfold the protein triple helix structure into random coil, leading to the disappearance of the positive peak at 220 nm, leaving a negative peak with reduced ellipticity (θ) at about 200 nm [92]. More obvious red shift of the negative peak, as well as more decrease of the peak ellipticity could imply greater extent of deconstruction in the collagenous structure. Each curve in Fig. 8 was in line with the characteristics of gelatin. The peak positions and ellipticities were shown in Table 3. Compared with control, modifications in the protein structure were revealed in the experimental groups, with alterations in the position of negative peak and ellipticity. It can be seen that 0.1% TFA, 0.5 M acetic acid and 2 M GuHCl had slighter destructive effects on protein conformation than 2 M urea, 2 M ammonia and 0.1 M AMBIC.

Fig. 8
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CD spectra of protein extracted from Ag-0 by different extraction agents

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Table 3 The position of negative peak and ellipticity of each curve in circular dichroism in Fig. 8
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Conclusion

In this study, six commonly used extraction agents for collagen-based mural painting binder were compared and analyzed. The extraction efficiency of each agent in non-aged and aged samples was statistically analyzed by BCA method and MANOVA. The effects of the extraction agents on the protein structure were characterized. It could be concluded that:

For both non-aged and aged samples, the extraction efficiency of 2 M GuHCl was significantly higher than the other five extracting agents. For different types of non-aged samples, there is no evident difference in the extraction efficiency using the same extraction agents.

As aging time increased, the extraction efficiency of all agents decreased significantly, but more distinctive from control except for urea.

All the agents caused a certain degree of damage to the C=O, –COOH, and –CONH2 groups in the polypeptide chain, and slightly deconstructed the triple helix structure of the extracted protein. Among them, 0.1% TFA, 0.5 M Acetic acid and 2 M GuHCl had relatively less influence on protein microstructure. Except for 2 M ammonia, the other five agents had no significant impact on the purity and molecular weight of the protein.

2 M GuHCl has the potential to serve as a more suitable extraction agent, as it is more promising in the preservation and recovery of more genuine proteinaceous residues for accurate identification.

Availability of data and materials

The data and materials used during the study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable requests.

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Additional file 1: Table S1.

Results of MANOVA on the effects of extraction agent and animal glue type on extraction efficiency. Table S2. Results of MANOVA on the effects of extraction agent type and aging time on extraction efficiency. Table S3. Results of MANOVA only for three groups of samples aged 1000 h, 1500 h and 2000 h

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Components of some reagents used were as follows:

1× PBS: Mix 0.01 M NaH2PO4 and 0.01 M Na2HPO4 at a volume ratio of 19:81 and adjust the pH to 7.4.

BCA reagent: Mix BCA disodium salt (0.10 g), anhydrous sodium carbonate (2.00 g), sodium tartrate (0.16 g), sodium hydroxide (0.40 g) and sodium bicarbonate (0.95 g), add deionized water to 100 mL, adjust to the pH to 11.25.

Cu reagent: Dissolve CuSO4·5H2O (0.4 g) in 10 mL deionized water.

Coomassie Brilliant Blue G-250 Staining solution: Mix 0.1 g of Coomassie Brilliant Blue G-250 with 50 mL 95% ethanol and 120 mL 85% phosphoric acid, add deionized water to make the volume to 1000 mL.

Destaining solution: Mix methanol, glacial acetic acid and deionized water at a volume ratio of 3:1:6.

7% resolving gel: Mix 2.3 mL 30% acrylamide solution, 2.5 mL 1.5 M Tris-HCl (pH 8.8) solution, 100 μL 10% SDS solution, 100 μL 10% ammonium persulfate solution and 10 μL TEMED, add deionized water to the total volume of 10 mL.

5% stacking gel: Mix 0.83 mL 30% acrylamide solution, 0.625 mL 1 M Tris-HCl (pH 6.8) solution, 50 μL 10% SDS solution, 75 μL 10% ammonium persulfate solution and 7.5 μL TEMED, add deionized water to the total volume of 5 mL.

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Du, J., Zhu, Z., Yang, J. et al. A comparative study on the extraction effects of common agents on collagen-based binders in mural paintings. Herit Sci 9, 45 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00519-y

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