Origin of Native Driving Force in Protein Folding

Abstract

We derive an expression with four adjustable parameters that reproduces well the 20x20 Miyazawa-Jernigan potential matrix extracted from known protein structures. The numerical values of the parameters can be approximately computed from the surface tension of water, water-screened dipole interactions between residues and water and among residues, and average exposures of residues in folded proteins.

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