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Science 1 May 1998:
Vol. 280. no. 5364, pp. 708 - 711
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5364.708
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A Trivalent System from Vancomycin·D-Ala-D-Ala with Higher Affinity Than Avidin·Biotin

Jianghong Rao, Joydeep Lahiri, Lyle Isaacs, Robert M. Weis, George M. Whitesides *

Tris(vancomycin carboxamide) binds a trivalent ligand derived from D-Ala-D-Ala with very high affinity: dissociation constant (Kd) approx  4 × 10-17 ± 1 × 10-17 M. High-affinity trivalent binding and monovalent binding are fundamentally different. In trivalent (and more generally, polyvalent) binding, dissociation occurs in stages, and its rate can be accelerated by monovalent ligand at sufficiently high concentrations. In monovalent binding, dissociation is determined solely by the rate constant for dissociation and cannot be accelerated by added monomer. Calorimetric measurements for the trivalent system indicate an approximately additive gain in enthalpy relative to the corresponding monomers. This system is one of the most stable organic receptor-ligand pairs involving small molecules that is known. It illustrates the practicality of designing very high-affinity systems based on polyvalency.

J. Rao, J. Lahiri, L. Isaacs, G. M. Whitesides, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
R. M. Weis, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gwhitesides{at}gmwgroup.harvard.edu

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