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The interaction of solvent with protein has been a major unresolved and significant problem for decades. Now, NMR techniques characterize the hydration sites of ubiquitin encapsulated within reverse micelles. This approach reveals a clustering of water molecules with similar residence times, an observation that is generally not accessible by crystallographic analyses.
