Magnitude of the hydrophobic effect at central versus peripheral sites in protein-protein interfaces
Li, Y., Huang, Y., Swaminathan, C.P., Smith-Gill, S.J., Mariuzza, R.A.(2005) Structure 13: 297-307
- PubMed: 15698573 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2004.12.012
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
- PubMed Abstract: 
Hydrophobic interactions are essential for stabilizing protein-protein complexes, whose interfaces generally consist of a central cluster of hot spot residues surrounded by less important peripheral residues. According to the O-ring hypothesis, a con ...