Analyzing and modelling thermodynamics; the key to lectin engineering

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Authors

ADAM Jan KŘÍŽ Zdeněk PROKOP Martin WIMMEROVÁ Michaela KOČA Jaroslav

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Cukrblik 2009
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Faculty of Science

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Field Biochemistry
Keywords lectins; docking; computational chemistry; thermodynamics
Description Thermodynamics is a basic driving force of all chemical processes, including those in the biomolecular chemistry. Not a single process can disobey its fundamental rules. The lectin-saccharide interaction is no exception, and as such, the understanding of the principles determining its behaviour greatly helps to elucidate the rules of the lectin-saccharide mediated processes in the nature, and, of course, also the ways of modifying them in the desired ways. Characterizing the thermodynamic behaviour of the molecules is nowadays a quite achievable feat, thanks to development on the instrumental field. Isothermal titration calorimeters requiring only small amounts of protein to provide thermodynamics information and coupled with surface plasmon resonance, a potent mean of kinetics analysis, obtaining a detailed image of the interaction becomes quite easily available. Moreover, the current computational capacity allows to perform sophisticated simulations and modelling of the biomolecular interactions.
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