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. 2005 Jul 29;89(4):2701–2710. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.104.057604

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

(A) Illustration of the concept first presented by Asakura and Oosawa (20). (B) Application of the concept to protein folding occurring in solvent. In this example, the three side chains are packed against one another. We remark that the excluded volume generated by a solute molecule is physically different from the partial molar volume (see the text).