Conformational stability of adrenodoxin mutant proteins

Protein Science

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1890-1897

  Burova, Tatjana V ^a   Beckert, Vita ^b   Uhlmann, Heike ^c   Ristau, Otto ^b   Bernhardt, Rita ^c   Pfeil, Wolfgang ^b,d  

^a EMANUEL INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

ferredoxin; iron sulfur protein; mutants; protein unfolding; scanning microcalorimetry

Indexed keywords

ADRENODOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENTHALPY; HYDROGEN BOND; MICROCALORIMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0029810154     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560050915     Document Type: Article

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