Structural highlights
Function
[MUP2_MOUSE] Binds pheromones that are released from drying urine of males. These pheromones affect the sexual behavior of females.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The contributions of solute-solute dispersion interactions to binding thermodynamics have generally been thought to be small, due to the surmised equality between solute-solvent dispersion interactions prior to the interaction versus solute-solute dispersion interactions following the interaction. The thermodynamics of binding of primary alcohols to the major urinary protein (MUP-I) indicate that this general assumption is not justified. The enthalpy of binding becomes more favorable with increasing chain length, whereas the entropy of binding becomes less favorable, both parameters showing a linear dependence. Despite the hydrophobicity of the interacting species, these data show that binding is not dominated by the classical hydrophobic effect, but can be attributed to favorable ligand-protein dispersion interactions.
Strong solute-solute dispersive interactions in a protein-ligand complex.,Malham R, Johnstone S, Bingham RJ, Barratt E, Phillips SE, Laughton CA, Homans SW J Am Chem Soc. 2005 Dec 7;127(48):17061-7. PMID:16316253[1]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
References
- ↑ Malham R, Johnstone S, Bingham RJ, Barratt E, Phillips SE, Laughton CA, Homans SW. Strong solute-solute dispersive interactions in a protein-ligand complex. J Am Chem Soc. 2005 Dec 7;127(48):17061-7. PMID:16316253 doi:10.1021/ja055454g
