At pharmaceutical companies the goal of many drug discovery experiments is to find improved drugs over...
1. Based on the data in the table below (a) what is the Kd for hormone binding by Protein1 and Protein ? (b) Which of these proteins binds most tightly to this hormone? Work this problem on a separate piece of graph paper. Y for Protein 2 ormone concentration (nM) Yfor Protein 1 0.17 0.33 0.5 0.8 0.91 0.95 0.98 0.2 .5 5T 4 10 20 50 0.5 0.67 0.89 0.95 0.97 0.99 2. Calculate the fractional saturation of hemoglobin...
When the term parenteral is used in regards to drug administration, this applies to drugs administered _____ (choose all that apply). Select one or more: a. intravenously b. orally c. intramuscularly d. topically Protein synthesis occurs in all living cells. Why, then, are some antimicrobial drugs that target protein synthesis selectively toxic to bacteria? Select one: a. The protein synthesis in human cells occurs less frequently than that in bacterial cells. b. The ribosomes found in human cells and those...
Similar to the lecture, our example is a drug molecule D and a drug target enzyme E. The drug target enzyme E is commonly found in concentrations [E]tot of 250 nM, i.e. 2.5 x 10-7 mol/l. The drug D binds to E to form the complex ED with a dissociation constant of KD = 1.30 µM (i.e. 1.30 x 10-6). The dissociation constant has been determined at room temperature, i.e. for T = 298.15 K. 1. In order to estimate...