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. 2007 May 11;93(5):1707–1718. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.106.103804

TABLE 2.

Thermal unfolding parameters

Variant pH °C Inline graphic kcal mol−1 ΔHTm kcal mol−1 K−1 ΔCP °C Tx kcal mol−1 ΔGTx
Wild-type 6.0 68.9 ± 0.1 141 ± 2 3.9 ± 0.1 34.6 ± 0.1 7.2± 0.1
6.5 67.9 ± 0.1 147 ± 2 32.3 ± 0.1 7.8 ± 0.3
7.0 67.0 ± 0.2 140 ± 3 32.9 ± 0.1 7.2 ± 0.1
7.5 66.5 ± 0.1 163 ± 3 27.2 ± 0.1 9.6 ± 0.1
8.0 65.1 ± 0.2 133 ± 3 32.7 ± 0.1 6.5 ± 0.2
S-126C 6.0 69.3 ± 0.1 157 ± 9 4.0 ± 0.1 32.2 ± 0.1 8.7 ± 0.9
6.5 69.2 ± 0.1 144 ± 4 35.1 ± 0.1 7.3 ± 0.5
7.0 68.7 ± 0.1 148 ± 5 33.4 ± 0.1 7.8 ± 0.3
7.5 67.0 ± 0.1 139 ± 4 33.9 ± 0.1 6.9 ± 0.2
8.0 66.4 ± 0.2 137 ± 2 33.7 ± 0.1 6.7 ± 0.3
S-265C 6.0 63.1 ± 0.1 112 ± 5 3.3 ± 0.1 36.1 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.4
6.5 62.7 ± 0.1 110 ± 4 36.4 ± 0.1 4.4 ± 0.2
7.0 61.5 ± 0.2 109 ± 4 35.3 ± 0.1 4.3 ± 0.1
7.5 60.1 ± 0.1 108 ± 3 34.1 ± 0.1 4.2 ± 0.1
8.0 59.1 ± 0.1 104 ± 3 33.9 ± 0.1 4.0 ± 0.3
S-126/265C 6.0 64.6 ± 0.1 127 ± 7 2.9 ± 0.1 23.4 ± 0.1 7.9 ± 0.2
6.5 63.8 ± 0.1 112 ± 5 26.0 ± 0.1 6.7 ± 0.1
7.0 62.7 ± 0.3 101 ± 6 29.5 ± 0.1 5.1 ± 0.2
7.5 62.1 ± 0.1 95.6 ± 1 30.7 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.3
8.0 60.3 ± 0.3 93 ± 3 29.8 ± 0.1 4.3 ± 0.1

Eqs. 1 and 2 were fit to the data shown in Fig. 2.

Temperature of melting (ΔGTm = 0).

Temperature of maximal stability.

Maximal stability.

Standard deviations were calculated by splitting the data into three sets of equal size and performing three independent fits for each variant.