A thermodynamic assay to test pharmacological chaperones for Fabry disease☆

•Pharmacological chaperones stabilize the folded state of proteins.•Only some Fabry mutations can be treated with pharmacological chaperones.•Urea-induced unfolding represents a novel assay to test the efficiency of drugs.•The test with urea can be applied to a tiny amount of mutants in raw extracts...

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Main Authors: Andreotti, Giuseppina, Citro, Valentina, Correra, Antonella, Cubellis, Maria Vittoria
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Pub. Co 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3909460/