overstabilization

noun

Excessive stabilization

Scrabble 31

Meanings

nounoverstabilization (plural overstabilizations)

plural overstabilizations

  1. Excessive stabilization

    Thus, a helix will persist as an independent rigid cluster during the thermal unfolding simulation until all backbone hydrogen bonds break almost simultaneously at a high temperature, which most likely represents an overstabilization of a helix [74 ].

    2015 July 6, “Structural Rigidity and Protein Thermostability in Variants of Lipase A from Bacillus subtilis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

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