Applications of Protein Thermodynamic Database for Understanding Protein Mutant Stability and Designing Stable Mutants
Applications of Protein Thermodynamic Database for Understanding Protein Mutant Stability and Designing Stable Mutants
Protein stability is the free energy difference between unfolded and folded states of a protein, which lies in the range of 5-25 kcal/mol. Experimentally, protein stability is measured with circular dichroism, differential scanning calorimetry, and fluorescence spectroscopy using thermal and denaturant denaturation methods. These experimental data have been accumulated in the form of a database, ProTherm, thermodynamic database for proteins and mutants. It also contains sequence and structure information of a protein, experimental methods and conditions, and literature information. Different features such as search, display, and sorting options and visualization tools have been incorporated in the database. ProTherm is a valuable resource for understanding/predicting the stability of proteins and it can be accessed at http://www.abren.net/protherm/ . ProTherm has been effectively used to examine the relationship among thermodynamics, structure, and function of proteins. We describe the recent progress on the development of methods for understanding/predicting protein stability, such as (1) general trends on mutational effects on stability, (2) relationship between the stability of protein mutants and amino acid properties, (3) applications of protein three-dimensional structures for predicting their stability upon point mutations, (4) prediction of protein stability upon single mutations from amino acid sequence, and (5) prediction methods for addressing double mutants. A list of online resources for predicting has also been provided.
- Department of Biotechnology India
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras India
- Tzu Chi University Taiwan
Models, Molecular, Internet, Protein Denaturation, Protein Folding, Calorimetry, Differential Scanning, Protein Conformation, Protein Stability, Circular Dichroism, User-Computer Interface, Point Mutation, Thermodynamics, Mutant Proteins, Amino Acid Sequence, Databases, Protein
Models, Molecular, Internet, Protein Denaturation, Protein Folding, Calorimetry, Differential Scanning, Protein Conformation, Protein Stability, Circular Dichroism, User-Computer Interface, Point Mutation, Thermodynamics, Mutant Proteins, Amino Acid Sequence, Databases, Protein
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