“…The results indicated the domination of hydrophobic interactions over the hydrogen bonds in this system [111]. When the same protein was modelled against epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), it was suggested that the hydroxyl groups of EGCG bind to five amino acids of the protein, mostly with His, Met, Lys, Ser and Gly residues, while the pi-alkyl groups of EGCG bind to only three Val groups of rice glutelin through hydrophobic interactions, hence hydrogen bonding dominated over hydrophobic association ( Figure 5 in Xu et al [90]). In rice glutelin-linoleic acid complexes, the association is mainly via van der Waals forces with 13 different amino acids at 15 distinct binding sites (Leu, Asp, Glu, Cys, Arg, Pro, Thr, Gln, Gly, Asn, Cys, Ala, and Phe) and two hydrogen bonds with Val and Arg residues [95].…”