... leading to the preferential hydration of the protein domain is the driving force of protein stabiliza-tion or folding [3,4]. Furthermore, the effect of osmolytes on the functional activity of ... DGD° values in the presence of these osmolytes are given in Table 1. How-ever, DGD° values of RNase-A in the presence of alanine, serine, lysine, b-alanine, taurine and dimethyl-glycine have ... [36,references therein]. The binding model claims that anincrease in the osmolyte-induced stability arises from the preferential hydration (or exclusion of the osmo-lyte) leading to a shift in the denaturation...