Thermodynamic stability of proteins adapted to extreme temperatures.
A stability study of small cold shock proteins from the Antarctic psychrophile Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis, the mesophile Escherichia coli and the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima finds that cold unfolding appears as a new but unsuspected factor limiting life at low temperatures.
Lorenzo Grossi, Caroline Struvay, G. Feller
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