Feedback for Multiple Choice Quiz 11
- Specificity, the preference for binding one molecule over all others, is due to the complementarity between the molecule and its protein binding site. The complementarity, in turn, is a result of the residues in the binding site.
- Look at one of the Scatchard plot graphs in the lecture notes.
- All of the parameters except for enthalpy are directly related to one another and interconvertable. (Enthalpy is determined by measuring the temperature dependence of an equilibrium constant.)
- Like DNP, Tyr and Phe have a similar aromatic phenyl moiety.
- A competing amino acid would lower the apparent affinity. Therefore the Kd would increase from 10-6
to (the only numerically possible answer provided) 10-5 M.
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