Table 1. Summary of the spectral properties variation induced by temperature on the isolated domains of both MTs and on the whole proteins.

Values in bold refer to the loss in absorbance at 254 nm (%); numbers in roman text represent the percentage decrease in molecular ellipticity. R, reversible; I, irreversible, when the temperature is brought back to 25 °C.

	Mouse			Fish
Temperature range (°C)	MT*	α-Domain	β-Domain	MT	α-Domain	β-Domain
25–60	0.0	−1.9	−6.0	−2.5	−5.7	−6.0
60–90	−2.2	−3.8	−6.6	−4.1	−14.1	−6.6
25–50	−8.0 (R)	−22.0 (R)	−76.0 (I)	−23.0 (R)	−33.0 (R)	−68.0 (I)

* Data from [23].