Protective role of salt in catalysis and maintaining structure of halophilic proteins against denaturation

Search for new enzymes of industrial relevance, bestowed with novel properties continues to be a desirable pursuit in enzyme research. Halophilism is the unusual existence of life in saline/ hypersaline habitats and haloenzymes, are the proteins from such origin, naturally endowed with unique struct...

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Main Authors: Rajeshwari eSinha, Sunil Kumar Khare
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00165/full