Structural rigidity and protein thermostability in variants of lipase a from Bacillus subtilis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Rathi, Prakash Chandra ^a   Jaeger, Karl Erich ^a,b   Gohlke, Holger ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID LIPASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONSTRAINT NETWORK ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RIGIDITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HEAT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYME STABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; LIPASE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84940056622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130289     Document Type: Article

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