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Ariel Fernández1, R Stephen Berry.
Abstract
Progressive structuring and ultimately exclusion of water by hydrophobes surrounding backbone hydrogen bonds turn the latter into guiding factors of protein folding. Here we demonstrate that an arrangement of five hydrophobes yields an optimal hydrogen-bond stabilization. This motif is shown to be nearly ubiquitous in native folds.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12414681 PMCID: PMC1302333 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(02)75258-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033