The M32L substitution of staphylococcal nuclease: disagreement between theoretical prediction and experimental protein stability.

Abstract excerpt

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 le...

Topics

• Enzyme Stability
• Micrococcal Nuclease
• Models, Molecular
• Mutation
• Protein Folding