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Water-Restructuring Mutations Can Reverse the Thermodynamic Signature of Ligand Binding to Human Carbonic Anhydrase.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - 27 Mar 2017
Fox Jerome M, Kang Kyungtae, Sastry Madhavi, Sherman Woody, Sankaran Banumathi, Zwart Peter H, Whitesides George M
Abstract excerpt
This study uses mutants of human carbonic anhydrase (HCAII) to examine how changes in the organization of water within a binding pocket can alter the thermodynamics of protein-ligand association. Results from calorimetric, crystallographic, and theoretical analyses suggest that most mutations strengthen networks of water-mediated hydrogen bonds and reduce binding affinity by increasing the enthalpic cost and, to...
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