Article
Conformational stabilization of an engineered binding protein.
Journal of the American Chemical Society - 14 Jun 2006
Wahlberg Elisabet, Härd Torleif
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed the thermodynamic basis for improvement of a binding protein by disulfide engineering. The Z(SPA)(-)(1) affibody binds to its Z domain binding partner with a dissociation constant K(d) = 1.6 microM, and previous analyses suggested that the moderate affinity is due to the conformational heterogeneity of free Z(SPA)(-)(1) rather than to a suboptimal binding interface. Studies of five stabilized...
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