Examples of hydrophobicity

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It should be noted that in few of the cell culture studies were other proteins of a similar size and hydrophobicity used as controls.
Experimentally determined hydrophobicity scale for proteins at membrane interfaces.
The glass was treated to give homogeneous surfaces densely packed with groups varying in chemical functionality, hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity.
A trend between strong hydrophobicity and high adhesion rate could be observed.
Probably other cell surface properties in addition to hydrophobicity also affect the adhesion rate of yeast cells to surfaces.
In this study, the adhesiveness and hydrophobicity of yeast cells isolated from food production processes was investigated.
This sequence is remarkable for its hydrophobicity and for its content of tryptophan.
The transmembrane sequence can be predicted by the hydrophobicity of the primary amino acid sequence, which can form the membrane spanning -helical structures.
Other ways of inducing hydrophobicity in membranes is to stress them mechanically, electrically or osmotically so that they are forced to thin and\\or stretch.
Further investigations on the effect of differing surface charge and of differing hydrophobicity of abiotic objects might well provide valuable information about the adhesion of invertebrate leucocytes to foreign objects.
As might be expected, the magnitude of the hydrophobic attraction depends on the ' hydrophobicity ' (or decreasing ' hydrophilicity ') of surfaces, although these are not straightforward to define or quantify.
Helm et al. (1992) measured the forces between ' depleted ' lecithin bilayers in water as a function of increasing hydrophobicity of the two outer monolayers.
The dependence of the distribution coefficient on ionic strength was used to rank the amino acids according to a scale similar to a hydrophobicity scale but derived from solvent-mediated effects.