Enhancement of protein thermal stability: Toward the design of robust proteins for bionanotechnological applications

Bionanotechnology: Proteins to Nanodevices

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 117-139

  Renugopalakrishnan, V ^a   Wei, X ^b   Narasimhan, G ^b   Verma, C S ^c   Li, Pingzuo ^a,d   Anumanthan, A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

bionanotechnology; hyperthermophilic rubredoxin; protein heat capacity; protein thermal stability; protein thermodynamics; rational site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846622236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4375-8_8     Document Type: Chapter

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