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Cosolvent Dimethyl Sulfoxide Influences Protein–Ligand Binding Kinetics via Solvent Viscosity Effects: Revealing the Success Rate of Complex Formation Following Diffusive Protein–Ligand Encounter

[Image: see text] Protein–ligand-exchange kinetics determines the duration of biochemical signals and consequently plays an important role in drug design. Binding studies commonly require solubilization of designed ligands in solvents such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), resulting in residual amounts...

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Autores principales: Wernersson, Sven, Birgersson, Simon, Akke, Mikael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9813907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36542811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00507
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author Wernersson, Sven
Birgersson, Simon
Akke, Mikael
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description [Image: see text] Protein–ligand-exchange kinetics determines the duration of biochemical signals and consequently plays an important role in drug design. Binding studies commonly require solubilization of designed ligands in solvents such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), resulting in residual amounts of DMSO following titration of solubilized ligands into aqueous protein samples. Therefore, it is critical to establish whether DMSO influences protein–ligand binding. Here, we address the general and indirect effect of DMSO on protein–ligand binding caused by solvent viscosity, which is strongly dependent on the relative concentrations of DMSO and water. As a model system, we studied the binding of a drug-like ligand to the carbohydrate recognition domain of galectin-3 in the presence of variable amounts of DMSO. We used isothermal titration calorimetry to characterize binding thermodynamics and (15)N NMR relaxation to monitor kinetics. The binding enthalpy is not affected, but we observe a subtle trend of increasingly unfavorable entropy of binding, and consequently decreased affinity, with increasing DMSO concentration. The increasing concentration of DMSO results in a reduced association rate of binding, while the dissociation rate is less affected. The observed association rate is inversely proportional to the viscosity of the DMSO–water mixture, as expected from theory, but significantly reduced from the diffusion-controlled limit. By comparing the viscosity dependence of the observed association rate with that of the theoretical diffusion-controlled association rate, we estimate the success rate of productive complex formation following an initial encounter of proteins and ligands, showing that only one out of several hundred binding “attempts” are successful.
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spelling pubmed-98139072023-01-06 Cosolvent Dimethyl Sulfoxide Influences Protein–Ligand Binding Kinetics via Solvent Viscosity Effects: Revealing the Success Rate of Complex Formation Following Diffusive Protein–Ligand Encounter Wernersson, Sven Birgersson, Simon Akke, Mikael Biochemistry [Image: see text] Protein–ligand-exchange kinetics determines the duration of biochemical signals and consequently plays an important role in drug design. Binding studies commonly require solubilization of designed ligands in solvents such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), resulting in residual amounts of DMSO following titration of solubilized ligands into aqueous protein samples. Therefore, it is critical to establish whether DMSO influences protein–ligand binding. Here, we address the general and indirect effect of DMSO on protein–ligand binding caused by solvent viscosity, which is strongly dependent on the relative concentrations of DMSO and water. As a model system, we studied the binding of a drug-like ligand to the carbohydrate recognition domain of galectin-3 in the presence of variable amounts of DMSO. We used isothermal titration calorimetry to characterize binding thermodynamics and (15)N NMR relaxation to monitor kinetics. The binding enthalpy is not affected, but we observe a subtle trend of increasingly unfavorable entropy of binding, and consequently decreased affinity, with increasing DMSO concentration. The increasing concentration of DMSO results in a reduced association rate of binding, while the dissociation rate is less affected. The observed association rate is inversely proportional to the viscosity of the DMSO–water mixture, as expected from theory, but significantly reduced from the diffusion-controlled limit. By comparing the viscosity dependence of the observed association rate with that of the theoretical diffusion-controlled association rate, we estimate the success rate of productive complex formation following an initial encounter of proteins and ligands, showing that only one out of several hundred binding “attempts” are successful. American Chemical Society 2022-12-21 2023-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9813907/ /pubmed/36542811 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00507 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Permits the broadest form of re-use including for commercial purposes, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Wernersson, Sven
Birgersson, Simon
Akke, Mikael
Cosolvent Dimethyl Sulfoxide Influences Protein–Ligand Binding Kinetics via Solvent Viscosity Effects: Revealing the Success Rate of Complex Formation Following Diffusive Protein–Ligand Encounter
title Cosolvent Dimethyl Sulfoxide Influences Protein–Ligand Binding Kinetics via Solvent Viscosity Effects: Revealing the Success Rate of Complex Formation Following Diffusive Protein–Ligand Encounter
title_full Cosolvent Dimethyl Sulfoxide Influences Protein–Ligand Binding Kinetics via Solvent Viscosity Effects: Revealing the Success Rate of Complex Formation Following Diffusive Protein–Ligand Encounter
title_fullStr Cosolvent Dimethyl Sulfoxide Influences Protein–Ligand Binding Kinetics via Solvent Viscosity Effects: Revealing the Success Rate of Complex Formation Following Diffusive Protein–Ligand Encounter
title_full_unstemmed Cosolvent Dimethyl Sulfoxide Influences Protein–Ligand Binding Kinetics via Solvent Viscosity Effects: Revealing the Success Rate of Complex Formation Following Diffusive Protein–Ligand Encounter
title_short Cosolvent Dimethyl Sulfoxide Influences Protein–Ligand Binding Kinetics via Solvent Viscosity Effects: Revealing the Success Rate of Complex Formation Following Diffusive Protein–Ligand Encounter
title_sort cosolvent dimethyl sulfoxide influences protein–ligand binding kinetics via solvent viscosity effects: revealing the success rate of complex formation following diffusive protein–ligand encounter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9813907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36542811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00507
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