ENGINEERING THERMOSTABILITY - LESSONS FROM THERMOPHILIC PROTEINS

被引:101
作者
RUSSELL, RJM
TAYLOR, GL
机构
[1] School of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath
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10.1016/0958-1669(95)80064-6
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Q5 [生物化学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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As several groups begin to tap the rich pickings found in the Archaea-a vast kingdom that stretches the concept of life as we know it-the structures of proteins from hyperthermophiles are being elucidated. Certain features are beginning to emerge, such as compactness and hydrophobic clustering, but the ability to engineer these features into temperature-intolerant proteins is still some way off.
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