Increasing protein stability by altering long-range coulombic interactions

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1843-1849

  Grimsley, Gerald R ^a   Shaw, Kevin L ^b   Fee, Lanette R ^b   Alston, Roy W ^b   Huyghues Despointes, Beatrice M P ^a   Thurlkill, Richard L ^b   Scholtz, J Martin ^a,b   Pace, C Nick ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrostatic interactions; Histidine pK(a); Protein folding; Protein stability; Reverse hydrophobic effect; Ribonuclease Sa; Ribonuclease T1

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE T1;

ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY;

EID: 0032872888     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.9.1843     Document Type: Article

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