The use of mutant proteins in protein adsorption studies

This paper presents some of the authors work on adsorption of proteins to solid interfaces, using sets of mutant proteins. The benefit of using mutants is that specific well-known changes can be made on the protein. Thus, only one property of the protein might be altered and a series of protein varying gradual in a protein characteristic can be produced. The systems presented in this paper are T4 lysozyme, b-lactoglobulin, and human carbonic anhydrase II.