期刊
TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES
卷 40, 期 9, 页码 491-496出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.07.004
关键词
disordered proteins; binding; entropy; small molecule; entropic expansion
资金
- Churchill Scholarship
The human proteome includes many disordered proteins. Although these proteins are closely linked with a range of human diseases, no clinically approved drug targets them in their monomeric forms. This situation arises, at least in part, from the current lack of understanding of the mechanisms by which small molecules bind proteins that do not fold into well-defined conformations. To explore possible solutions to this problem, we discuss quite generally how an overall decrease in the free energy associated with intermolecular binding can originate from different combinations of enthalpic and entropic contributions. We then consider more specifically a mechanism of binding by which small molecules can affect the conformational space of a disordered protein by creating an entropic expansion in which more conformations of the protein become populated.
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