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• Hernández, G. and LeMaster, D.M. "Hybrid Native Partitioning of the Interactions among Nonconserved Residues in Chimeric Proteins", Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, in press
• LeMaster, D.M., Tang, J., Paredes, D.I., and Hernández, G. "Contribution of the Multi-turn Segment in the Reversible Thermal Stability of Hyperthermophile Rubredoxin: NMR Thermal Chemical Exchange Analysis of Sequence Hybrids" Biophysical Chemistry, 116, 57-65.
• LeMaster, D.M., Tang, J., Hernández, G., "Absence of Kinetic Thermal Stabilization in a Hyperthermophile Rubredoxin Indicated by 40 Microsecond folding in the Presence of Irreversible Denaturation" Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 57, 118-127 (2004).
• Tang, J., Hernández, G., LeMaster, D.M. "Increased Peptide Deformylase Activity for N-formylmethionine Processing of Proteins Overexpressed in Escherichia Coli: Application to Homogeneous Rubredoxin Production" Protein Expression and Purification 36(1): 100-105 (2004).
• Hernández, G., Teng, C-L., Bryant, R.G., LeMaster, D.M., "O₂ Penetration and Proton Burial Depth in Proteins: Applicability to Fold Family Recognition" Journal of the American Chemical Society 124:4463-4472 (2002).
• Hernández, G., LeMaster, D.M., "Reduced Temperature Dependence of Collective Conformational Opening in a Hyperthermophile Rubredoxin" Biochemistry 40:14384-14391 (2001).
• Hernández, G, LeMaster, D.M., "Millisecond Time Scale Conformational Flexibility in a Hyperthermophile Protein at Ambient Temperature" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97:3166-3170 (2000).

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