Abstract
Hydrophobicity is the unfavourable energetics of dissolving nonpolar compounds in water. The hydrophobicities of the 20 amino acid side-chains are currently described by hydrophobicity scales derived primarily from solubility studies; these scales have provided semiquantitative rationalizations of some properties of native (folded) proteins.
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