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EXTREMOPHILES
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 135-142Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s007920100232
Keywords
archaea; differential scanning calorimetry; haloalkaliphiles; nucleoside diphosphate kinase; stability
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Nucleoside diphosphate kinase from the haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natrialba magadii (Nm NDPK) is a homooligomeric hexamer with a monomer molecular weight of 23 kDa. Its main function is to exchange gamma-phosphates between nucleoside triphosphates and diphosphates. Previously it was shown that Nm NDPK is active over a wide range of NaCl concentrations, which is not typical of extremely halophilic proteins. In this paper more detailed investigations of kinase function and stability were carried out using circular dichroism, differential scanning calorimetry, size-exclusion chromatography, and biochemical methods. A possible mechanism for stabilization of halophilic proteins that allows them to function in a wide range of NaCl concentrations is proposed.
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