1. Thermodynamics of Folding, Stabilization, and Binding in an Engineered Protein−Protein Complex
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Elisabet Wahlberg, Torleif Härd, Jakob Dogan, Vildan Dincbas-Renqvist, and Christofer Lendel
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Models, Molecular ,Isothermal microcalorimetry ,Protein Folding ,Protein Conformation ,Chemistry ,Thermodynamics ,Isothermal titration calorimetry ,General Chemistry ,Plasma protein binding ,Protein engineering ,Protein Engineering ,Biochemistry ,Catalysis ,Protein Structure, Tertiary ,Kinetics ,Structure-Activity Relationship ,Colloid and Surface Chemistry ,Protein structure ,Protein folding ,Carrier Proteins ,Protein secondary structure ,Protein Binding ,Entropy (order and disorder) - Abstract
We analyzed the thermodynamics of a complex protein-protein binding interaction using the (engineered) Z(SPA)(-)(1) affibody and it's Z domain binding partner as a model. Free Z(SPA)(-)(1) exists in an equilibrium between a molten-globule-like (MG) state and a completely unfolded state, wheras a well-ordered structure is observed in the Z:Z(SPA)(-)(1) complex. The thermodynamics of the MG state unfolding equilibrium can be separated from the thermodynamics of binding and stabilization by combined analysis of isothermal titration calorimetry data and a separate van't Hoff analysis of thermal unfolding. We find that (i) the unfolding equilibrium of free Z(SPA)(-)(1) has only a small influence on effective binding affinity, that (ii) the Z:Z(SPA)(-)(1) interface is inconspicuous and structure-based energetics calculations suggest that it should be capable of supporting strong binding, but that (iii) the conformational stabilization of the MG state to a well-ordered structure in the Z:Z(SPA)(-)(1) complex is associated with a large change in conformational entropy that opposes binding.
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- 2004
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