Structural and energetic consequences of mutations in a solvated hydrophobic cavity.
Adamek, D.H., Guerrero, L., Blaber, M., Caspar, D.L.(2005) J Mol Biol 346: 307-318
- PubMed: 15663946 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.11.046
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1S0L, 1T4Q, 1TOO, 1TP0, 1TWE, 1TWM - PubMed Abstract: 
The structural and energetic consequences of modifications to the hydrophobic cavity of interleukin 1-beta (IL-1beta) are described. Previous reports demonstrated that the entirely hydrophobic cavity of IL-1beta contains positionally disordered water. To gain a better understanding of the nature of this cavity and the water therein, a number of mutant proteins were constructed by site-directed mutagenesis, designed to result in altered hydrophobicity of the cavity ...