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Denaturant m values and heat capacity changes: Relation to changes in accessible surface areas of protein unfolding

Overview of attention for article published in Protein Science, December 2008
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Title
Denaturant m values and heat capacity changes: Relation to changes in accessible surface areas of protein unfolding
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Protein Science, December 2008
DOI 10.1002/pro.5560041020
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Abstract

Denaturant m values, the dependence of the free energy of unfolding on denaturant concentration, have been collected for a large set of proteins. The m value correlates very strongly with the amount of protein surface exposed to solvent upon unfolding, with linear correlation coefficients of R = 0.84 for urea and R = 0.87 for guanidine hydrochloride. These correlations improve to R = 0.90 when the effect of disulfide bonds on the accessible area of the unfolded protein is included. A similar dependence on accessible surface area has been found previously for the heat capacity change (delta Cp), which is confirmed here for our set of proteins. Denaturant m values and heat capacity changes also correlate well with each other. For proteins that undergo a simple two-state unfolding mechanism, the amount of surface exposed to solvent upon unfolding is a main structural determinant for both m values and delta Cp.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 13 2%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
Belgium 3 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Taiwan 2 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Estonia 2 <1%
Other 9 1%
Unknown 683 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 207 28%
Researcher 111 15%
Student > Master 72 10%
Student > Bachelor 61 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 41 6%
Other 120 16%
Unknown 116 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 210 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 174 24%
Chemistry 111 15%
Engineering 21 3%
Physics and Astronomy 18 2%
Other 60 8%
Unknown 134 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2023.
All research outputs
#4,964,341
of 33,666,858 outputs
Outputs from Protein Science
#533
of 4,649 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,529
of 243,766 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Protein Science
#194
of 2,070 outputs
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