Favorable entropy of aromatic clusters in thermophilic proteins

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2005, Pages 18184-18188

  Trebbi, Bruno ^a   Dehez, Francois ^b   Fowler, Patrick W ^c   Zerbetto, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; OSCILLATIONS; PROTEINS;

AROMATIC CLUSTERS; LARGE-AMPLITUDE OSCILLATIONS; MESOPHILIC ANALOGUES;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

AROMATIC AMINO ACID; ENZYME; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CHEMISTRY; ENTROPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; CALORIMETRY; ENTROPY; ENZYMES; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 26844433039     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp052333u     Document Type: Article

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