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@ARTICLE{Doster:201056,
author = {Doster, Wolfgang and Gutberlet, Thomas},
title = {{T}he {P}rotein-{W}ater {E}nergy {S}eascape},
journal = {Biochimica et biophysica acta / Proteins and proteomics},
volume = {1804},
number = {1},
issn = {1570-9639},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-03366},
pages = {1 - 2},
year = {2010},
abstract = {Protein molecules and liquid water are very different
systems both from a structural and a dynamic point of view.
Proteins are long range ordered, but its local molecular
motions are restricted by covalent bonds, which makes it
solid-like. The dynamics of such a system is properly
represented by barrier crossing within a well defined energy
landscape. Water in contrast is short-range ordered, but
long range diffusion allows it to flow, the essence of the
liquid state. The energy landscape is thus fluctuating and
motion is determined by collective reorganization of
molecules forming transient holes, the landscape turns into
a seascape. At the protein-water interface mutual
interactions modify the properties of both systems. The
protein landscape is modulated in time by density
fluctuations in the liquid phase and interfacial water is
transiently immobilized by rigid protein structure.The
physical phenomenon of protein hydration is to some extent
elusive, since there is no rigid shell of water around a
protein molecule. Instead there is a fluctuating cloud which
is thermodynamically and dynamically different from bulk
water. A “hydrodynamic” definition of hydration water is
to evaluate, how many water molecules near the protein
surface have their displacement vector along the trajectory
of the protein at any instant of time. This is determined by
the strength of interaction with the protein and, hence, by
the ratio of the time that is spent “attached” to the
protein to the time spent in the bulk phase. The sum of the
fractional contributions of all water molecules is the
measured hydration. It is the mass of water, which migrates
with the protein at any instant of time. When divided by the
molecular weight of water, this yields the average number of
molecules, which interact with the protein [1].An
operational definition is to determine the amount of
non-freezable water at low temperatures, which depends
however on the cooling-rate if crystallization occurs. Below
about 0.4 g water per g protein, crystallization is
hindered. The hydration shell can be super-cooled until a
glass transition interferes at 170 K. In such hydrated
protein powders, the water molecules are permanently in
contact with the protein surface, while protein translation
and rotation is suppressed. Such surface-attached water
molecules are still highly mobile, performing long-range
diffusion, which is a property of the liquid state. The
translational diffusion is arrested at the glass transition
[2]. This dramatic slowing down of molecular motions of
water is a useful approach to the coupling between water and
protein dynamics},
cin = {JCNS (München) ; Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS
(München) ; JCNS-FRM-II / Neutronenstreuung ; JCNS-1 /
JCNS-2},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106},
pnm = {54G - JCNS (POF2-54G24)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-54G24},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000272765200001},
doi = {10.1016/j.bbapap.2009.11.003},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/201056},
}