Water as a good solvent for unfolded proteins: Folding and collapse are fundamentally different

PL Clark, KW Plaxco, TR Sosnick - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
… We want to emphasize that we are not proposing that water is a good solvent for all unfolded
proteins. It is clear, for example, that low-diversity or poorly mixed sequences sometimes …

Protein structure, stability and solubility in water and other solvents

C Nick Pace, S Trevino… - … of the Royal …, 2004 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… By comparing his results to experimental data, he concluded that ‘…the overall properties
of unfolded proteins can be usefully described by a random coil model and that an unfolded

Proteinsolvent interactions

N Prabhu, K Sharp - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
… and around unfolded proteins, have major implications for how the field views the role of
water removal during folding. X-ray crystallography has long been used to analyze …

A novel method reveals that solvent water favors polyproline II over β‐strand conformation in peptides and unfolded proteins: Conditional hydrophobic accessible …

PJ Fleming, NC Fitzkee, M Mezei, R Srinivasan… - Protein …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… sampled by peptides and unfolded proteins is largely determined by their interaction with
water. It has been a long-standing goal to capture these solute-water energetics accurately and …

[HTML][HTML] Protein hydration and unfolding–insights from experimental partial specific volumes and unfolded protein models

LR Murphy, N Matubayasi, VA Payne, RM Levy - Folding and Design, 1998 - cell.com
… We employ the idea that the proteinsolvent interaction will be proportional to … water
properties is found to be very model dependent, however. The maximally exposed unfolded protein

Counting peptide‐water hydrogen bonds in unfolded proteins

H Gong, LL Porter, GD Rose - Protein Science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
water is a good solvent or a poor solvent for proteins.6, 24 Intuitively, one might expect that
water is a good solvent if, on average, residue backbones have three water-accessible sites …

Molecular dynamics simulations of protein unfolding and limited refolding: characterization of partially unfolded states of ubiquitin in 60% methanol and in water

DOV Alonso, V Daggett - Journal of molecular biology, 1995 - Elsevier
… of ubiquitin varying the solvent conditions, temperature, and starting protein conformation.
Our main goal in this communication is description of the partially unfolded state of ubiquitin in …

Solvent dependence of dimensions of unfolded protein chains

G Damschun, H Damaschun, K Gast, D Zirwer… - International journal of …, 1991 - Elsevier
… of an unfolded protein in different solvents including 6.65 M GuHCl and water at low and …
as an example of unfolded protein because it has been shown that this protein is completely …

Proteins take up water before unfolding

CCM Groot, HJ Bakker - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
… the protein and the water solvent. We study the dynamics of water in aqueous solutions of
several globular proteins at different degrees of urea-induced unfolding, using polarization-…

Interactions of urea with native and unfolded proteins: a volumetric study

I Son, YL Shek, A Tikhomirova… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
… , we exhaustively dialyzed the proteins against distilled water with subsequent lyophilization.
… Urea solutions were used as solvents for the proteins investigated in this study. The …