Solvation thermodynamics of biopolymers. I. Separation of the volume and surface interactions with estimates for proteins
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Peptide Science
- Vol. 28 (7), 1309-1325
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bip.360280711
Abstract
The present paper is a systematic first approach to the problem of solvation thermodynamics of biomolecules. Most previous approaches have been only crude estimates of solvent contributions, and have simply assessed solvation free energy as proportional to surface areas. Here we estimate the various contributions and divide them into (a) hard‐core interactions dependent upon the entire volume of solute and (b) the remainder of interactions manifested through surfaces, such as van der Waals, charge—charge, or hydrogen bonds. We have estimated the work to create a cavity with scaled‐particle theory (SPT), the van der Waals interactions on the surface, and hydrogen bonds between the surface and the solvent. The conclusion here is that this latter term is the largest component of the solvation free energy of proteins. From estimates on nine diverse proteins, it is clear that the larger the protein, the more dominant is the hydrogen‐bond term. In the next paper, we indicate that correlations between hydrogen‐bonding groups on the surfaces could increase the magnitude of the hydrogen‐bond contribution.Keywords
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