Recommended reading

• Herberhold et al. (2004) Effects of Chaotropic and Kosmotropic Cosolvents on the Pressure-Induced Unfolding and Denaturation of Proteins: An FT-IR Study on Staphylococcal Nuclease. Biochemistry 43:3336.
• Batchelor et al. (2004) Impact of protein denaturants and stabilizers on water structure. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126:1958.
• Boström et al. (2003) Specific ion effects: Why the properties of lysozyme in salt solutions follow a Hofmeister series. Biophys. J. 85:686.
• Uedaira et al. (2001) Role of hydration of polyhydroxy compounds in biological systems. Cell. Mol. Biol. 47:823.
• http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/kosmos.html
• Cacace et al. (1997): The Hofmeister series: salt and solvent effects on interfacial phenomena. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics 30:241.
• Von Hippel et al. (1965) On the Conformational Stability of Globular Proteins: The Effects of Various Electrolytes and Non-electrolytes on the Thermal Ribonuclease Transition. J. Biol. Chem. 240:3909.