The Most Important Contribution to the Stability of a Protein's

question 61

Multiple Choice

The most important contribution to the stability of a protein's conformation appears to be the:

• A)entropy increase from the decrease in ordered water molecules forming a solvent shell around it.
• B)maximum entropy increase from ionic interactions between the ionized amino acids in a protein.
• C)sum of free energies of formation of many weak interactions among the hundreds of amino acids in a protein.
• D)sum of free energies of formation of many weak interactions between its polar amino acids and surrounding water.
• E)stabilizing effect of hydrogen bonding between the carbonyl group of one peptide bond and the amino group of another.

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