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The binding capacity is a probability density function

E Di Cera1, Z Q Chen

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

Biophysical Journal
|July 1, 1993
PubMed
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Binding capacity fluctuations reveal ligand chemical potential. Moments of this density function quantify binding free energy and system cooperativity, enabling unique determination of system coefficients.

Area of Science:

  • Biophysical chemistry
  • Chemical thermodynamics
  • Statistical mechanics

Background:

  • Ligand binding is fundamental to biological and chemical systems.
  • Understanding binding thermodynamics and cooperativity is crucial.
  • Current methods may not fully capture system complexity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To establish a novel framework connecting binding capacity fluctuations to ligand chemical potential.
  • To demonstrate how moments of this probability density function relate to binding free energy and cooperativity.
  • To show that system coefficients can be uniquely determined from these moments.

Main Methods:

  • Treating binding capacity as a probability density function for chemical potential.
  • Calculating moments (mean, second moment, etc.) of this density function.

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  • Utilizing numerical integration of experimental data.
  • Deriving an analytical expression for the moment generating function.

    • Main Results:

    • The first moment directly yields mean ligand activity and average binding free energy.
    • The second moment is a direct measure of system cooperativity.
    • Higher moments provide further insights into binding characteristics.
    • The N independent coefficients of the partition function are uniquely defined by the first N moments.

    Conclusions:

    • Binding capacity fluctuations offer a powerful probabilistic interpretation of ligand chemical potential.
    • Moments of the binding capacity distribution provide direct, quantitative measures of thermodynamic properties and cooperativity.
    • This approach allows for the unique determination of system parameters from experimental data.