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List of works by Wesley E Stites

A First-Order Phase Transition Between a Compact Denatured State and a Random Coil State in Staphylococcal Nuclease

A convenient preparation of derivatives of 3(s)-amino-10(r)-carboxy-1,6-diaza-cyclodeca-2,7-dione the dilactam of L-α, γ-diaminobutyric acid and d-glutamic acid: A β-turn template

An electrophoretic mobility shift assay for methionine sulfoxide in proteins

scientific article published on 17 December 2011

Changes in stability upon charge reversal and neutralization substitution in staphylococcal nuclease are dominated by favorable electrostatic effects

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Chemically crosslinked protein dimers: stability and denaturation effects.

scientific article published on December 1995

Comparing the effect on protein stability of methionine oxidation versus mutagenesis: steps toward engineering oxidative resistance in proteins

scientific article published in May 2001

Comparison of Two ESI MS Based H/D Exchange Methods for Extracting Protein Folding Energies

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Does the oxidation of methionine in thrombomodulin contribute to the hypercoaguable state of smokers and diabetics?

scientific article published on 24 October 2006

Effects of excluded volume upon protein stability in covalently cross-linked proteins with variable linker lengths

scientific article published on 26 July 2008

Energetics of Side Chain Packing in Staphylococcal Nuclease Assessed by Exchange of Valines, Isoleucines, and Leucines

scientific article published on November 20, 2001

Energetics of Side Chain Packing in Staphylococcal Nuclease Assessed by Systematic Double Mutant Cycles

scientific article published on November 20, 2001

Evidence for strained interactions between side-chains and the polypeptide backbone.

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Experimental pK(a) values of buried residues: analysis with continuum methods and role of water penetration

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High Apparent Dielectric Constant Inside a Protein Reflects Structural Reorganization Coupled to the Ionization of an Internal Asp

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High apparent dielectric constants in the interior of a protein reflect water penetration

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Higher-Order Packing Interactions in Triple and Quadruple Mutants of Staphylococcal Nuclease

scientific article published on November 20, 2001

In a staphylococcal nuclease mutant the side-chain of a lysine replacing valine 66 is fully buried in the hydrophobic core

Inactivation of thrombomodulin by ionizing radiation in a cell-free system: possible implications for radiation responses in vascular endothelium

scientific article published in April 2008

Mustard gas crosslinking of proteins through preferential alkylation of cysteines

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Oxidation of buried cysteines is slow and an insignificant factor in the structural destabilization of staphylococcal nuclease caused by H2O2 exposure

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Packing Is a Key Selection Factor in the Evolution of Protein Hydrophobic Cores

scientific article published on December 18, 2001

Protein surface hydration mapped by site-specific mutations.

scientific article published on 12 September 2006

Proteins with simplified hydrophobic cores compared to other packing mutants

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Protein−Protein Interactions: Interface Structure, Binding Thermodynamics, and Mutational Analysis

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Refinement of noncalorimetric determination of the change in heat capacity, DeltaC(p), of protein unfolding and validation across a wide temperature range

scientific article published in June 2008

Replacement of staphylococcal nuclease hydrophobic core residues with those from thermophilic homologues indicates packing is improved in some thermostable proteins

scientific article published in November 2004

Stability Effects of Increasing the Hydrophobicity of Solvent-Exposed Side Chains in Staphylococcal Nuclease

scientific article published on May 12, 1998

The fluorescence detected guanidine hydrochloride equilibrium denaturation of wild-type staphylococcal nuclease does not fit a three-state unfolding model

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The pH dependence of staphylococcal nuclease stability is incompatible with a three-state denaturation model

scientific article published on July 2013

Theory of the Protein Equilibrium Population Snapshot by H/D Exchange Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (PEPS-HDX-ESI-MS) Method used to obtain Protein Folding Energies/Rates and Selected Supporting Experimental Evidence.

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Thermal denaturations of staphylococcal nuclease wild-type and mutants monitored by fluorescence and circular dichroism are similar: lack of evidence for other than a two state thermal denaturation

scientific article published on 28 November 2006

Thermodynamic principles for the engineering of pH-driven conformational switches and acid insensitive proteins.

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[8] Application of automated methods for determination of protein conformational stability

scientific article published on 01 January 1998