The M32L substitution of staphylococcal nuclease: disagreement between theoretical prediction and experimental protein stability
| Autor: | Daniel S. Spencer, Wesley E. Stites |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Molecular Protein Folding Stereochemistry Chemistry General problem Point mutation Mutant Crystallography Molecular dynamics Protein stability Structural Biology Enzyme Stability Mutation Micrococcal Nuclease Protein folding Denaturation (biochemistry) Molecular Biology Staphylococcal Nuclease |
| Zdroj: | Journal of molecular biology. 257(3) |
| ISSN: | 0022-2836 |
| Popis: | The M32L substitution mutation of staphylococcal nuclease was made to test the theoretical prediction by Yamaotsu, Moriguchi and Hirono that it would be approximately 1.6 kcal/mol more stable than the wild-type protein. Instead M32L and the closely related M32I mutant were 0.8 and 0.6 kcal/mol less stable than the wild-type protein, respectively. The theoretical treatment had successfully predicted the stability effects of other mutations in staphylococcal nuclease. The discrepancy found here may be due to a general problem of the theoretical treatment, such as inadequate molecular dynamics simulation time, or possibly due to more specific difficulty in assessing the strength of the sulfur – aromatic interaction that is present in the wild-type. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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