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Abstract
Free energy perturbation methods using molecular dynamics have been used to calculate the absolute free energy of association of two ligand-protein complexes. The calculations reproduce the significantly more negative free energy of association of biotin to streptavidin, compared to N-L-acetyltryptophanamide/alpha-chymotrypsin. This difference in free energy of association is due to van der Waals/dispersion effects in the nearly ideally performed cavity that streptavidin presents to biotin, which involves four tryptophan residues.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8378312 PMCID: PMC47364 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.18.8402
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205