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    Org Lett. 2004 Sep 30;6(20):3429-32.

    Thermodynamic analysis of a hydrophobic binding site: probing the PDZ domain with nonproteinogenic peptide ligands.

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    Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA.

    Abstract

    [structure: see text] Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is used to study the thermodynamic consequences of systematically modifying the hydrophobic character of a single residue in a series of protein-binding ligands. By substituting standard and nonproteinogenic aliphatic amino acids for the C-terminal valine of the hexapeptide KKETEV, binding to the third PDZ domain (PDZ3) of the PSD-95 protein is characterized by distinct changes in the Gibbs free energy (DeltaG), enthalpy (DeltaH), and entropy (TDeltaS) parameters. One notable observation is that peptide binding affinity can be improved with a nonstandard residue.

    PMID:
    15387515
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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