title: Binding behaviour and conformational properties of globular proteins in the presence of immobilised non-polar ligands used in reversed-phase liquid chromatography.
abstract: The thermodynamic and extra-thermodynamic dependencies of five types of cytochrome c in water-acetonitrile mixtures of different composition in the presence of immobilised n-octyl ligands as a function of temperature from 278 K to 338 K have been investigated. The corresponding enthalpic, entropic and heat capacity parameters, deltaHdegrees assoc, deltaS degrees assoc and delta C degrees p, have been evaluated from the observed non-linear Van't Hoff plots of these globular proteins in these heterogeneous systems. The relationships between the free energy dependencies, various molecular parameters and extra-thermodynamic dependencies (empirical correlations) of these protein-non-polar ligand interactions have also been examined. Thus, the involvement of enthalpy-entropy compensation effects has been documented for the binding of these cytochrome cs to solvated n-octyl ligands. Moreover, the results confirm that this experimental approach permits changes in molecular surface area due to the unfolding of these proteins on association with non-polar ligands as a function of temperature to be correlated with other biophysical properties. This study thus provides a general procedure whereby the corresponding free energy dependencies of globular proteins on association with solvated non-polar ligands in heterogeneous two-phase systems can be quantitatively evaluated in terms of fundamental molecular parameters.
authors.affiliation: Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Green Chemistry, Australian Centrefor Research on Separation Science, Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 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: D045304:Cytochromes c / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D008024:Ligands; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D011506:Proteins; D045304:Cytochromes c