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Thermodynamics Of Ligand Binding And Global Structural Stability Of Human Serum Albumin, Matthew Walter Eskew
Thermodynamics Of Ligand Binding And Global Structural Stability Of Human Serum Albumin, Matthew Walter Eskew
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Protein structure is integral to its function. For the past 70 years differential scanning calorimetry has been used to measure protein structural stability. More recently it has been used to study macromolecular interactions. Interactions between proteins and ligands can manifest on differential scanning calorimetry melting curves or thermograms. Utilizing differential scanning calorimetry thermograms to detect or diagnose diseases has been a major goal in disease diagnostics. However, correlating specific ligand-protein interactions, as manifested in a thermogram, with a disease-specific plasma thermogram, has proven elusive.
Modified human serum albumin was utilized to develop a process to capture and retrieve ligands from …