Talk:Thermostability

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Thermostability vs Thermal stability
Where is the difference between Thermostability and Thermal stability? Is there any difference or do the two articles mean the same? --Minihaa (talk) 09:30, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The terms used are largely synonymous and which is used depends on the domain of usage. IME thermostability/thermostable is used by chemists, biologists/zoologists/botanists, doctors, some materials scientists/engineers (mainly plastics/polymers) etc to refer to proteins, molecules etc. Thermally stable/thermal stability is used by hydrologists, oceanologists, metallurgists, electronicists, physicists (including meterologists), geologists/mineralologists, pyrologists, pyrotechnicians, some materials scientists/engineers (mainly crystalline and inorganic but also polymers) etc referring not only to molecular properties but also to large volumes of a material. The terms can be mixed within domains if it sounds natural: a virus made of thermostable proteins might be said to have a thermally stable structure. Waerloeg (talk) 00:52, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Care must be taken with thermal stability and thermostability, at-least in biology. They are related but not the same. Thermal stability is the temperature of thermal denaturation (unfolding), measured in degrees celsius. Thermostability is the thermodynamic free energy (Gibbs free energy) of folding/unfolding, and is measured as kJ/mol. Dbsseven (talk) 14:50, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Bibliography of Relevant Articles for the Topic
1. Anna Tigerström. “Thermostability of Proteins.” Bios, vol. 76, no. 1, 2005, pp. 22–27. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4608725.

2. Stafford, K. A.; Robustelli, P.; Palmer, A. G. Thermal adaptation of conformational dynamics in ribonuclease H PLoS Comput. Biol. 2013, 9, e1003218 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003218

3. Sandeep Kumar, Chung-Jung Tsai, Ruth Nussinov; Factors enhancing protein thermostability, Protein Engineering, Design and Selection, Volume 13, Issue 3, 1 March 2000, Pages 179–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/protein/13.3.179

4. Atyaksheva, L.F., Poltorak, O.M., Chukhrai, E.S. et al. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (2006) 80: 630. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036024406040273

5. Patrick Argos, Michael G. Rossmann, Ulrich M. Grau, Herbert Zuber, Gerhard Frank, and Jon Duri Tratschin Biochemistry 1979 18 (25), 5698-5703 DOI: 10.1021/bi00592a028

Improvements for this Article
1. In the beginning, address what it means to be a thermally stable protein in terms of structure.

2. Give an example of thermostability as a useful characteristic in protein purification, such as in the separation of Alkaline Phosphatase.

3. Elaborate more on thermostable DNA polymerase proteins used in polymerase chain reactions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cabigasj97 (talk • contribs) 9 May 2018 (UTC)