Attempts to delineate the relative contributions of changes in hydrophobicity and packing to changes in stability of ribonuclease S mutants

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5923-5930

  Das, Mili ^a   Rao, Bharathi Vasudeva ^a   Ghosh, Sanjukta ^a   Varadarajan, Raghavan ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL; HYDROPHOBICITY; METHANOL; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION; HYDROPHOBIC DRIVING FORCES; HYDROPHOBIC RESIDUES; PEPTIDE BINDING;

ENZYMES;

ALCOHOL; METHANOL; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PEPTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE; VITRONECTIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME STABILITY; FORCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REDUCTION; SURFACE TENSION; WILD TYPE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROSTATICS; ENZYME STABILITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 17144418127     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi050001+     Document Type: Article

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