Fluorine Bonding Enhances the Energetics of Protein-Lipid Binding in the Gas Phase |
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Authors: | Lan Liu Nobar Jalili Alyson Baergen Simon Ng Justin Bailey Ratmir Derda John S Klassen |
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Institution: | 1. Alberta Glycomics Centre and Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2, Canada
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Abstract: | This paper reports on the first experimental study of the energies of noncovalent fluorine bonding in a protein-ligand complex in the absence of solvent. Arrhenius parameters were measured for the dissociation of gaseous deprotonated ions of complexes of bovine β-lactoglobulin (Lg), a model lipid-binding protein, and four fluorinated analogs of stearic acid (SA), which contained (X =) 13, 15, 17, or 21 fluorine atoms. In all cases, the activation energies (Ea) measured for the loss of neutral XF-SA from the (Lg + XF-SA)7– ions are larger than for SA. From the kinetic data, the average contribution of each?>?CF2 group to Ea was found to be ~1.1 kcal mol–1, which is larger than the ~0.8 kcal mol–1 value reported for?>?CH2 groups. Based on these results, it is proposed that fluorocarbon–protein interactions are inherently stronger (enthalpically) than the corresponding hydrocarbon interactions. Figure ? |
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