Kinetics of ligand binding to nucleic acids at arbitrary occupancy
Autor: | S. Yu. Babayan, V. I. Tairyan, Poghos O. Vardevanyan, H. V. Arakelyan, Marine A. Parsadanyan, V.B. Arakelyan |
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Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Zdroj: | Biophysics. 51:370-375 |
ISSN: | 1555-6654 0006-3509 |
Popis: | Ligand binding to nucleic acids is described in the context of the theory of random processes. It is shown that a probabilistic description of the binding of a ligand to a nucleic acid yields the kinetics of the number of bound ligands at arbitrary occupancy, as well as the steady-state value and the variance. It is demonstrated that a combined analysis of the adsorption isotherm and the kinetics of ligand binding to nucleic acids makes it possible to determine the rate constants for association and dissociation of the ligand-nucleic acid complex. The results obtained are compared with the case of low occupancy. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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