Ligand binding aromatic interactions

Like the other weakly polar interactions, amino-aromatic interactions are a mechanism of protein-ligand binding. Perutz et al. (1986) described a series of X-ray crystallographic studies of drugs and peptides bound to deoxy-Hb A. They characterized an amino-aromatic interaction between the 8+ N8—H group of asparagine-108 with the 8 7r-electron cloud of one of the phenyl rings of bezafibrate (see Fig. 20). 

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