... to the mechanism underlying proteinstability at the amino-acid level. The molecular mechanismsunderlying protein maturation, folding, and stability in bacterial cytochromes c are beginning ... together with the results from rapidly increasing X-ray crystal and NMRanalyses, have stimulated mutagenesis studies, which con-tribute to the understanding of the mechanisms underlyingprotein maturation, ... and evolution.Cytochrome c is unique among heme proteins in having aheme covalently attached to the polypeptide chain via twothioether bonds, formed from the vinyl groups of the heme and the...