Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 2866-2871Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct1003077
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- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Hydrophobic association is often recognized as being driven by favorable entropic contributions. Here, using explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations we investigate binding in a model hydrophobic receptor ligand system which appears, instead, to be driven by enthalpy and opposed by entropy. We use the temperature dependence of the potential of mean force to analyze the thermodynamic contributions along the association coordinate. Relating such contributions to the ongoing changes in system hydration allows us to demonstrate that the overall binding thermodynamics is determined by the expulsion of disorganized water from the receptor cavity. Our model study sheds light on the solvent-induced driving forces for receptor ligand association of general, transferable relevance for biological systems with poorly hydrated binding sites.
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