The ability of an antagonist to bind to a receptor is an innate property of that ligand-receptor chemical interaction. Provided no change in the antagonist or receptor chemical nature occurs, this affinity should remain constant for a given antagonist-receptor interaction, regardless of the agonists used. This fundamental assumption underpins the classification of receptors. Here, measurements ...

Chemical cross-linking in combination with mass spectrometry has emerged as a powerful tool to study noncovalent protein complexes. Nevertheless, there are still many questions to answer. Does the amount of detected cross-linked complex correlate with the amount of protein complex in solution? In which concentration and affinity range is specific cross-linking possible? To answer these question...

Many inhibitors prevent the oxidation o f the primary electron-accepting quinone (QA) by the secondary quinone (QB) in photosystem II by displacem ent o f Q B from its binding site. On the other hand, plastoquinone-1 and 6-azido-5-decyl-2,3-dim ethoxy-/?-benzoquinone displace herbicides. Binding studies show the herbicide/quinone interaction to be (apparently) competitive. The herbicide binding...