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Stabilizing and destabilizing effects of phenylalanine --> F5-phenylalanine mutations on the folding of a small protein.
Journal of the American Chemical Society - 20 Dec 2006
Woll Matthew G, Hadley Erik B, Mecozzi Sandro, Gellman Samuel H
Abstract excerpt
We report a systematic evaluation of phenylalanine-to-pentafluorophenylalanine (Phe --> F5-Phe) mutants for the 35-residue chicken villin headpiece subdomain (c-VHP), the hydrophobic core of which features a cluster of three Phe side chains (residues 6, 10, and 17). Phe --> F5-Phe mutations are interesting because aryl-perfluoroaryl interactions of optimal geometry are intrinsically more favorable than aryl-aryl...
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