Quantitative demonstration of the reciprocity of ligand effects in the ternary complex of chicken heart lactate dehydrogenase with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide oxalate

Biochemistry. 1975 Oct 7;14(20):4471-6. doi: 10.1021/bi00691a020.

Abstract

The reciprocity of effects of two ligands simultaneously bound to a protein as a ternary complex may be proven by measurements of four standard free energies of binding. Two of these are for the binding of each ligand in the absence of the other, and the other two for the binding of each ligand in the presence of saturating amounts of the other (conditional free energies). These four quantities have been measured for the complexes of oxalate and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide with chick heart lactate dehydrogenase. The differences between conditional and unconditional free energies are: oxalate, -1.1 +/- 0.3 kcal; NADH,-1.3 +/- 0.2 kcal, thus proving the reciprocity within experimental error.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Binding Sites
  • Chickens
  • Kinetics
  • L-Lactate Dehydrogenase*
  • Mathematics
  • Myocardium / enzymology*
  • NAD*
  • Oxalates*
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Conformation
  • Thermodynamics

Substances

  • Oxalates
  • NAD
  • L-Lactate Dehydrogenase