... ARTICLE What does it mean to be natively unfolded? Vladimir N. Uversky1Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow, Russia;2Department of Chemistry ... ÔboundaryÕ mean hydrophobicityvalue, <H>b, below which a polypeptide chain with a given mean net charge <R> will be most probably unfolded:hHibhRi1X1512X7851The v alidity ... atively unfo lded proteins is i ndirectly con-®rmed by their extremely h igh s ensitivity to proteasedegradation in vit ro [4,5,54±59].Table 1. Hydrodynamic characteristics of the natively unfolded...