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Structural and denaturation studies of two mutants of a cold adapted superoxide dismutase point to the importance of electrostatic interactions in protein stability.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Mar 2014
Merlino Antonello, Russo Krauss Irene, Castellano Immacolata, Ruocco Maria Rosaria, Capasso Alessandra, De Vendittis Emmanuele, Rossi Bianca, Sica Filomena
Abstract excerpt
A peculiar feature of the psychrophilic iron superoxide dismutase from Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis (PhSOD) is the presence in its amino acid sequence of a reactive cysteine (Cys57). To define the role of this residue, a structural characterization of the effect of two PhSOD mutations, C57S and C57R, was performed. Thermal and denaturant-induced unfolding of wild type and mutant PhSOD followed by circular...
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