Temperature and length scale dependence of hydrophobic effects and their possible implications for protein folding

AUTOR(ES)

Huang, David M.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The Lum–Chandler–Weeks theory of hydrophobicity [Lum, K., Chandler, D. & Weeks, J. D. (1999) J. Phys. Chem. 103, 4570–4577] is applied to treat the temperature dependence of hydrophobic solvation in water. The application illustrates how the temperature dependence for hydrophobic surfaces extending less than 1 nm differs significantly from that for surfaces extending more than 1 nm. The latter is the result of water depletion, a collective effect, that appears at length scales of 1 nm and larger. Because of the contrasting behaviors at small and large length scales, hydrophobicity by itself can explain the variable behavior of entropies of protein folding.

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