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A stability pattern of protein hydrophobic mutations that reflects evolutionary structural optimization.
Biophysical journal - 1 Nov 2005
Godoy-Ruiz Raquel, Perez-Jimenez Raul, Ibarra-Molero Beatriz, Sanchez-Ruiz Jose M
Abstract excerpt
We have determined the effect of mutations involving isoleucine and valine (i.e., mutations I-->V and V-->I) on the stability of Escherichia coli thioredoxin. Despite the similarity in chemical structure (V and I differ only in a methyl group), we find that many environments are optimized to a significant extent for either V or I. We find, furthermore, that a plot of effect of hydrophobic mutations on stability...
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