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== Melting point ==
== Melting point ==


[[Thermofluor assay]]
Thermofluor is a fluorescence-based thermal stability assay.


Ku T, Lu P, Chan C, Wang T, Lai S, Lyu P, Hsiao N. (2009) Predicting melting temperature directly from protein sequences. Comput Biol Chem. 33, 445-450 at [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2009.10.002].
Ku T, Lu P, Chan C, Wang T, Lai S, Lyu P, Hsiao N. (2009) Predicting melting temperature directly from protein sequences. Comput Biol Chem. 33, 445-450 at [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2009.10.002].
They have a list of 35 different proteins with their Tms with the references from where they obtained their data, and their Tm Index program is available at [http://tm.life.nthu.edu.tw/].
They have a list of 35 different proteins with their Tms with the references from where they obtained their data, and their Tm Index program is available at [http://tm.life.nthu.edu.tw/].
A specific case which shows that Tm does not need to be high: the protein with PDB-ID 1ofc had a melting temperature of 37°C (from CD), which was supported by the fact that it did not express in E.coli at that temperature.
At 20°C it expressed to about 60mg / (liter LB), could be concentrated to more than 100mg/ml, crystallised at room temperature and diffracted to 1.9A. The initial purification steps were done at 4°C.
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