title: Thermodynamic assessment of the stability of thrombin receptor antagonistic peptides in hydrophobic environments.
abstract: In this paper, a general procedure is described to determine thermodynamic parameters associated with the interaction of thrombin receptor antagonistic peptides (TRAPs) with immobilized nonpolar ligands. The results show that these interactions were associated with nonlinear van't Hoff dependencies over a wide temperature range. Moreover, changes in relevant thermodynamic parameters, namely the changes in Gibbs free energy of interaction, DeltaG(0)assoc, enthalpy of interaction, DeltaH(0)assoc, entropy of interaction, DeltaS(0)assoc, and heat capacity, DeltaC(0)p, have been related to the structural properties of these TRAP analogs. The implications of these investigations for the design of thrombin receptor agonists/antagonists with structures stabilized by intramolecular hydrophobic interactions are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Bioprocess Technology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Reinhard I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Boysen
authors.forename: Agnes J O
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Jong
authors.forename: Milton T W
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Hearn
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007700:Kinetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D017510:Protein Folding; D018179:Receptors, Thrombin / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000737:chemistry; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D009842:Oligopeptides; D010455:Peptides; D018179:Receptors, Thrombin