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#Question id: 736


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

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology
  1. entropy increase from the decrease in ordered water molecules forming a solvent shell around it.

  2. maximum entropy increase from ionic interactions between the ionized amino acids in a protein.

  3. sum of free energies of formation of many weak interactions among the hundreds of amino acids in a protein.

  4. sum of free energies of formation of many weak interactions between its polar amino acids and surrounding water.