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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 97, Issue 15, Pages 8324-8327Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.120176397
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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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