Thermal stability and atomic-resolution crystal structure of the Bacillus caldolyticus cold shock protein

U Mueller, D Perl, FX Schmid, U Heinemann - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2000 - Elsevier
The bacterial cold shock proteins are small compact β-barrel proteins without disulfide
bonds, cis-proline residues or tightly bound cofactors. Bc-Csp, the cold shock protein from …

Crystal structures of mutant forms of the Bacillus caldolyticus cold shock protein differing in thermal stability

H Delbrück, U Mueller, D Perl, FX Schmid… - Journal of molecular …, 2001 - Elsevier
The cold shock proteins Bc-Csp from the thermophile Bacillus caldolyticus and Bs-CspB
from the mesophile Bacillus subtilis differ significantly in their conformational stability …

Electrostatic stabilization of a thermophilic cold shock protein

D Perl, FX Schmid - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2001 - Elsevier
The cold shock protein Bc-Csp from the thermophile Bacillus caldolyticus differs from its
mesophilic homolog Bs-CspB from Bacillus subtilis by 15.8 kJ mol− 1 in the Gibbs free …

Role of the chain termini for the folding transition state of the cold shock protein

D Perl, G Holtermann, FX Schmid - Biochemistry, 2001 - ACS Publications
Residues Arg3 and Leu66 are crucially important for the enhanced stability of the cold shock
protein Bc-Csp from the thermophile Bacillus caldolyticus relative to its homologue Bs-CspB …

Origins of the high stability of an in vitro-selected cold-shock protein

A Martin, I Kather, FX Schmid - Journal of molecular biology, 2002 - Elsevier
In previous work, we had identified stabilized forms of the cold-shock protein Bs-CspB from
Bacillus subtilis in a combinatorial library by an in vitro selection procedure. In this library …

Optimized variants of the cold shock protein from in vitro selection: structural basis of their high thermostability

KEA Max, M Wunderlich, Y Roske, FX Schmid… - Journal of molecular …, 2007 - Elsevier
The bacterial cold shock proteins (Csp) are widely used as models for the experimental and
computational analysis of protein stability. In a previous study, in vitro evolution was …

The family of cold shock proteins of Bacillus subtilis: stability and dynamics in vitro and in vivo

T Schindler, PL Graumann, D Perl, S Ma… - Journal of Biological …, 1999 - ASBMB
Bacillus subtilis possesses three homologous small cold shock proteins (CSPs; CspB,
CspC, CspD, sequence identity> 72%). They share a similar β-sheet structure, as shown by …

Electrostatic contributions to the stability of a thermophilic cold shock protein

HX Zhou, F Dong - Biophysical journal, 2003 - cell.com
The thermophilic Bacillus caldolyticus cold shock protein (Bc-Csp) differs from the
mesophilic Bacillus subtilis cold shock protein B (Bs-CspB) in 11 of the 66 residues. Stability …

Specificity of the initial collapse in the folding of the cold shock protein

C Magg, J Kubelka, G Holtermann, E Haas… - Journal of molecular …, 2006 - Elsevier
The two-state folding reaction of the cold shock protein from Bacillus caldolyticus (Bc-Csp) is
preceded by a rapid chain collapse. A fast shortening of intra-protein distances was …

Does the elimination of ion pairs affect the thermal stability of cold shock protein from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima?

N Frankenberg, C Welker, R Jaenicke - FEBS letters, 1999 - Elsevier
Cold shock proteins (Csps) from mesophiles and thermophiles differ widely in their
stabilities, but show close structural similarity. Sequence variations involve mainly charged …