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Analysis of ligand binding curves on basis of mean intrinsic thermodynamic quantities.

Bordbar AK, Dazhampanah H, Mousavi SH, Haertle T

Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Isfahan University, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran. bordbar@chem.ui.ac.ir

The mean intrinsic thermodynamic quantity can be defined by considering the relative population of complex species in the solution and the value of intrinsic thermodynamic quantity corresponds to each step of ligation. In the present study a new method is introduced for analysis of experimental ligand binding data on basis of mean intrinsic thermodynamic quantities. In this regard, a deviation parameter was defined by comparing the non-interacting system with the cooperative interactive one. This parameter can be calculated just by estimation of the first binding constant. A set of relations between this deviation parameter and other binding characteristics, such as mean intrinsic Gibbs free energy of binding and mean Gibbs free energy of site-site interaction, have been developed. This model presents binding mechanism in a unified way that is simple, yet stringent, more straightforward, more reliable and informative. This analyzing method has been successfully applied for evaluation of various systems such as oxygen binding to hemoglobin, laurate and warfarin binding to human serum albumin, and reveals some new biological features of these binding systems.

Published 19 February 2007 in Int J Biol Macromol, 40(4): 367-73.
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