... a-carbonvirtual-bond backbone is displayed as a red line and theyellow and gray spheres indicate a-carbons, respectively,associated with overexposed (under 33% buried) and buriedhydrophobic residues. Significantly, ... [7,8].Insufficiently desolvated HBs and the PrPCfiPrPSctransitionConsistent withresults reported previously [7,8], the a-helix 1is the most susceptible to structural change into b-strand and condensation onto ... paired by UDHBs, and thus, their engagement inbinding is triggered by the possibility of providing furtherdesolvation to the UDHBs. On the other hand, hydropho-bic residues 138, 139 and 141, if...