ABSTRACT
Ligand binding to nucleic acids (NA) is considered as a stationary Markov process. It is shown that the probabilistic description of ligand-NA binding allows one to describe not only the kinetics of the change of number of bound ligands at arbitrary fillings but also to calculate stationary values of the number of bound ligands and its dispersion. The general analysis of absorption isotherms and kinetics of ligand binding to NA make it possible to determine of rate constants of ligand-NA complex formation and dissociation.
Subject(s)
Nucleic Acids/chemistry , Nucleic Acids/metabolism , Kinetics , Ligands , Markov Chains , Models, Biological , ThermodynamicsABSTRACT
Simultaneous formulation binding and structure modification of the binding site leads to binding process that can be analyzed within the framework of the non-linear theory of dynamic systems. Such an approach allows us to obtain several properties of the binding center: plurality of stationary (stable and unstable) states at binding, recognition of bistable and hysteretic binding modes. It is also shown that adsorption centre deformation leads to a S-shaped adsorption curve.
