Coincidence of Dynamical Transitions in a Soluble Protein and Its Hydration Water: Direct Measurements by Neutron Scattering and MD Simulations
- 14 March 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 130 (14) , 4586-4587
Abstract
The coupling between protein dynamics and hydration-water dynamics was assessed by perdeuteration, temperature-dependent neutron scattering, and molecular dynamics simulations. Mean square displacements of water and protein motions both show a broad transition at 220 K and are thus coupled. In particular, the protein dynamical transition appears to be driven by the onset of hydration-water translational motion.Keywords
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