Water Networks Contribute to Enthalpy/Entropy Compensation in Protein鈥揕igand Binding

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• 作者：Benjamin Breiten ; Matthew R. Lockett ; Woody Sherman ; Shuji Fujita ; Mohammad Al-Sayah ; Heiko Lange ; Carleen M. Bowers ; Annie Heroux ; Goran Krilov ; George M. Whitesides
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October 16, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：135
• 期：41
• 页码：15579-15584
• 全文大小：432K
• 年卷期：v.135,no.41(October 16, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

The mechanism (or mechanisms) of enthalpy鈥揺ntropy (H/S) compensation in protein鈥搇igand binding remains controversial, and there are still no predictive models (theoretical or experimental) in which hypotheses of ligand binding can be readily tested. Here we describe a particularly well-defined system of protein and ligands鈥攈uman carbonic anhydrase (HCA) and a series of benzothiazole sulfonamide ligands with different patterns of fluorination鈥攖hat we use to define enthalpy/entropy (H/S) compensation in this system thermodynamically and structurally. The binding affinities of these ligands (with the exception of one ligand, in which the deviation is understood) to HCA are, despite differences in fluorination pattern, indistinguishable; they nonetheless reflect significant and compensating changes in enthalpy and entropy of binding. Analysis reveals that differences in the structure and thermodynamic properties of the waters surrounding the bound ligands are an important contributor to the observed H/S compensation. These results support the hypothesis that the molecules of water filling the active site of a protein, and surrounding the ligand, are as important as the contact interactions between the protein and the ligand for biomolecular recognition, and in determining the thermodynamics of binding.