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Protein–protein associations are fundamental to biological mechanisms. Developed from lectures given to beginning graduate students in cell and molecular biology, this book presents general principles of thermodynamics and kinetics, and structural principles of protein–protein interface as well as guided reading of informative classic papers. Faculties organizing similar classes, and students and researchers wishing to learn on their own, will also find this book of use.
Harold P Erickson is a professor in the Departments of Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Having received his PhD in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 1968, he did postdoctoral work with Aaron Klug at the MRC lab in Cambridge, England, developing techniques for computer reconstruction of electron microscope images. His research career at Duke University has focused the cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix, with an emphasis on protein–protein associations and self-assembly. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed articles.
Chapter 1 Size and Shape of Protein Molecules
Chapter 2 Basic thermodynamics of reversible association
Chapter 3 The nature of the protein-protein bond, à la Chothia and Janin
Chapter 4 The structure of an antibody bound to its protein ligand – lock and key vs induced fit
Chapter 5 The complex of growth hormone with its receptor – one protein interface binds two partners
Chapter 6 The hot spot in protein-protein interfaces
Chapter 7 Cooperativity in protein-protein association and efficiency of bonds
Chapter 8 Kinetics of protein-protein association and dissociation
Chapter 9 Techniques for measuring protein-protein association – use and abuse of ELISA
Chapter 10 Fibronectin, the FNIII domain, and artificial antibodies
Chapter 11 Association of intrinsically disordered proteins – flexible binding partners