TY - JOUR ID - open236 UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1110/ps.0397603/pdf IS - 9 A1 - Sarin, Jyoti A1 - Raghava, G.P.S. A1 - Chakraborti, Pradip K N2 - The nucleotide-binding subunit of phosphate-specific transporter (PstB) from mesophilic bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a unique ATP-binding cassette (ABC) ATPase because of its unusual ability to hydrolyze ATP at high temperature. In an attempt to define the basis of thermostability, we took a theoretical approach and compared amino acid composition of this protein to that of other PstBs from available bacterial genomes. Interestingly, based on the content of polar amino acids, this protein clustered with the thermophiles. VL - 12 TI - Intrinsic contributions of polar amino acid residues toward thermal stability of an ABC-ATPase of mesophilic origin. AV - restricted EP - 20 N1 - Copyright of this article belongs to Wiley. Supplemental material: See www.proteinscience.org. Y1 - 2003/09// PB - Wiley JF - Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society KW - ATP-binding cassette ATPase; polar amino acid; PstB; thermostability SN - 0961-8368 SP - 2118 ER -