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"General numerical treatment of competitive binding kinetics: Application to thrombin-dehydrothrombin-hirudin" Kuzmic, P. (1999) Anal. Biochem. 267, 17-23. Abstract: This paper describes a general numerical method for the determination of rate constants that characterize the binding of a ligand L simultaneously and competitively to two different receptor molecules, R1 and R2. The experimental data consist of changes in the concentration of one receptor (e.g., R1) monitored over time. An example problem is represented by hirudin (L) binding to thrombin (R1) and to a chemical mutant of thrombin (R2). The published experimental data [Wedemeyer et al. (1997) Anal. Biochem. 248, 130-140], previously analyzed by using an approximate algebraic method, were reanalyzed here by numerical integration [Kuzmic (1996) Anal. Biochem. 237, 260-273]. This general numerical method offers the following advantages. (1) It provides an estimate for the lower limit on feasible values of association rate constants. (2) It is many orders of magnitude more accurate. (3) It is easily extensible to more complicated reaction mechanisms. (4) It uses a simpler formalism and it is thus more accessible to non-mathematicians. (5) A suitable computer program for the analysis of competitive binding kinetics can be obtained via Internet (http://www.biokin.com).

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