Wayne J. Becktel

Protein stability curves

Wayne J. Becktel, John A. Schellman · Biopolymers · 1987 · 1K citations

Stability Curves, Protein Stability Curves, Free Energy +14

Enhanced protein thermostability from site-directed mutations that decrease the entropy of unfolding.

Brian W. Matthews, H. Nicholson, Wayne J. Becktel · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1987 · 760 citations · Full text

Protein Assembly, Molecular Biology, Amino Acid Substitutions +16

pH-Induced denaturation of proteins: a single salt bridge contributes 3-5 kcal/mol to the free energy of folding of T4 lysozyme

David E. Anderson, Wayne J. Becktel, Frederick W. Dahlquist · Biochemistry · 1990 · 516 citations

Free Energy, Protein Chemistry, Protein Assembly +14

Hydrophobic stabilization in T4 lysozyme determined directly by multiple substitutions of Ile 3

Masazumi Matsumura, Wayne J. Becktel, Brian W. Matthews · Nature · 1988 · 372 citations

Protein Chemistry, Ile 3, Biochemistry +7

Enhanced protein thermostability from designed mutations that interact with α-helix dipoles

H. Nicholson, Wayne J. Becktel, Brian W. Matthews · Nature · 1988 · 285 citations

Protein Chemistry, Protein Folding, Natural Sciences +10