On the relationship between thermal stability and catalytic power of enzymes

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 51, 2007, Pages 15076-15088

  Roca, Maite ^a   Liu, Hanbin ^a   Messer, Benjamin ^a   Warshel, Arieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROSTATICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CATALYTIC POWER; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (DHFR); HYPERTHERMOPHILIC (TM) ENZYMES; MESOPHILIC (MS) ENZYMES;

ENZYMES;

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY;

CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 37349007321     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701732a     Document Type: Article

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