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Science 2 November 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4418, pp. 575 - 577
DOI: 10.1126/science.493962
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Science, Vol 206, Issue 4418, 575-577
Copyright © 1979 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Water, protein folding, and the genetic code

RV Wolfenden, PM Cullis, and CC Southgate

The absolute affinities of amino acid side chains for solvent water closely match their relative distributions between the surface and the interior of native proteins and are associated with a remarkable bias in the genetic code.


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