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SUBMITTER: Dagan S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3696814 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dagan Shlomi S Hagai Tzachi T Gavrilov Yulian Y Kapon Ruti R Levy Yaakov Y Reich Ziv Z
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130610 26
Entropic stabilization of native protein structures typically relies on strategies that serve to decrease the entropy of the unfolded state. Here we report, using a combination of experimental and computational approaches, on enhanced thermodynamic stability conferred by an increase in the configurational entropy of the folded state. The enhanced stability is observed upon modifications of a loop region in the enzyme acylphosphatase and is achieved despite significant enthalpy losses. The modifi ...[more]