Hydrophobic collapse
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title:
Hydrophobic collapse
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Hydrophobic collapse is a proposed process for the production of the 3-D conformation adopted by polypeptides and other molecules in polar solvents. The theory states that the nascent polypeptide forms initial secondary structure creating localized regions of predominantly hydrophobic residues. The polypeptide interacts with water, thus placing thermodynamic pressures on these regions which then aggregate or "collapse" into a tertiary conformation with a hydrophobic core. Incidentally, polar res
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Process in protein folding
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic_collapse
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2023-07-06T20:28:45Z
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