“…The change in volume in textbooks of Thermodynamics is defined as the partial derivative of the Gibbs energy with respect to pressure; thus, the change in volume upon protein–ligand binding at a constant temperature, T , is
where p denotes the pressure, and Δ G b is the change in the standard Gibbs energy of binding (the standard state is defined as 1 mol/L concentrations of the participating substances at 1 bar pressure and the activity coefficients are equal to 1). 32 This equation shows that to obtain Δ V b , we first need to determine Δ G b at various pressures. In experiments, usually the dissociation equilibrium constant, K d , is determined, while the change in the Gibbs energy is calculated using the equation Δ G b = RT ln K d .…”