Protein-ligand interaction ontology

Last uploaded: November 3, 2014
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Affinity
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http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/2010/3/Ontology1271664172453.owl#Affinity

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Affinity is the tendency of a molecule to associate with another. The affinity of a drug is its ability to bind to its biological target (receptor, enzyme, transport system, etc.) For pharmacological receptors it can be thought of as the frequency with which the drug, when brought into the proximity of a receptor by diffusion, will reside at a position of minimum free energy within the force field of that receptor. For an agonist (or for an antagonist) the numerical representation of affinity is the reciprocal of the equilibrium dissociation constant of the ligand-receptor complex denoted K A, calculated as the rate constant for offset (k -1) divided by the rate constant for onset (k 1).

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Ontology1271664172453:Affinity

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Affinity

Reference

Wermuth, C.G., et al., Glossary of terms used in medicinal chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1998). Pure Appl. Chem., 1998. 70(5): p. 1129-1143.

Synonym

affinity affinities binding affinity binding affinities receptor ligand affinity bioaffinity

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http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/2010/3/Ontology1271664172453.owl#binding_activity

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