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Penkov NV. Peculiarities of the Dynamical Hydration Shell of Native Conformation Protein Using a Bovine Serum Albumin Example. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2024:37028241261097. [PMID: 38881287 DOI: 10.1177/00037028241261097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
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This paper describes an approach based on the method of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, which allows the analysis of dynamical hydration shells of proteins with a thickness of 1-2 nm. Using the example of bovine serum albumin in three conformations, it is shown that the hydration shells of the protein are characterized by increased binding of water molecules in the primary hydration layers, and in more distant areas of hydration, on the contrary, the water structure is somewhat destroyed. The fraction of free or weakly bound molecules, usually observed in the structure of liquid water in hydration shells, become more numerous but its average binding is greater than in undisturbed water. The energy distribution of hydrogen bonds in hydration shells is narrowed compared to undisturbed water. All these manifestations of hydration are most pronounced for the native conformation of the protein. Also, the hydration shells of the native protein are characterized by a smaller number of hydrogen bonds and a tendency to decrease their average energy compared to non-native conformations. The fact of a pronounced peculiarity of the hydration shells of the protein in the native conformation has been noted for different proteins before. However, the methodological approach used in this work for the first time allowed this peculiarity to be described by specific parameters of the intermolecular structure and dynamics of water.
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- Nikita V Penkov
- Institute of Cell Biophysics, Federal Research Center, Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
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Ludlam GH, Gnaniah SJP, Degl’Innocenti R, Gupta G, Wain AJ, Lin H. Measurement of Water Uptake and States in Nafion Membranes Using Humidity-Controlled Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy. ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING 2024; 12:7924-7934. [PMID: 38783844 PMCID: PMC11110106 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c01820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2024] [Revised: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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Perfluorinated sulfonic acid ionomers are well known for their unique water uptake properties and chemical/mechanical stability. Understanding their performance-stability trade-offs is key to realizing membranes with optimal properties. Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy has been demonstrated to resolve water states inside industrially relevant membranes, producing qualitatively agreeable results to conventional gravimetric analysis and prior demonstrations. Using the proposed humidity-controlled terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, here we quantify this detailed water information inside commercially available Nafion membranes at various humidities for direct comparison against literature values from dynamic vapor sorption, differential scanning calorimetry, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy on selected samples. Using this technique therefore opens up opportunities for rapid future parameter space investigation for membrane optimization.
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- National
Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0LW, U.K.
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- Department
of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, U.K.
- School
of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, U.K.
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- Department
of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, U.K.
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- National
Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0LW, U.K.
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- Department
of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, U.K.
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Orlikowska-Rzeznik H, Versluis J, Bakker HJ, Piatkowski L. Cholesterol Changes Interfacial Water Alignment in Model Cell Membranes. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:13151-13162. [PMID: 38687869 PMCID: PMC11099968 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c00474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2024] [Revised: 04/20/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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The nanoscopic layer of water that directly hydrates biological membranes plays a critical role in maintaining the cell structure, regulating biochemical processes, and managing intermolecular interactions at the membrane interface. Therefore, comprehending the membrane structure, including its hydration, is essential for understanding the chemistry of life. While cholesterol is a fundamental lipid molecule in mammalian cells, influencing both the structure and dynamics of cell membranes, its impact on the structure of interfacial water has remained unknown. We used surface-specific vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy to study the effect of cholesterol on the structure and hydration of monolayers of the lipids 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), and egg sphingomyelin (SM). We found that for the unsaturated lipid DOPC, cholesterol intercalates in the membrane without significantly changing the orientation of the lipid tails and the orientation of the water molecules hydrating the headgroups of DOPC. In contrast, for the saturated lipids DPPC and SM, the addition of cholesterol leads to clearly enhanced packing and ordering of the hydrophobic tails. It is also observed that the orientation of the water hydrating the lipid headgroups is enhanced upon the addition of cholesterol. These results are important because the orientation of interfacial water molecules influences the cell membranes' dipole potential and the strength and specificity of interactions between cell membranes and peripheral proteins and other biomolecules. The lipid nature-dependent role of cholesterol in altering the arrangement of interfacial water molecules offers a fresh perspective on domain-selective cellular processes, such as protein binding.
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- Hanna Orlikowska-Rzeznik
- Faculty
of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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- AMOLF,
Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- AMOLF,
Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Faculty
of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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Petersen T. Toward Modeling the Structure of Electrolytes at Charged Mineral Interfaces Using Classical Density Functional Theory. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:3981-3996. [PMID: 38626457 PMCID: PMC11056995 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c08045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2023] [Revised: 04/02/2024] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/18/2024]
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The organization of water molecules and ions between charged mineral surfaces determines the stability of colloidal suspensions and the strength of phase-separated particulate gels. In this article, we assemble a density functional that measures the free energy due to the interaction of water molecules and ions in electric double layers. The model accounts for the finite size of the particles using fundamental measure theory, hydrogen-bonding between water molecules using Wertheim's statistical association theory, long-range dispersion interactions using Barker and Henderson's high-temperature expansion, electrostatic correlations using a functionalized mean-spherical approximation, and Coulomb forces through the Poisson equation. These contributions are shown to produce highly correlated structures, aptly rendering the layering of counterions and co-ions at highly charged surfaces and permitting the solvation of ions and surfaces to be measured by a combination of short-range associations and long-ranged attractions. The model is tested in a planar geometry near soft, charged surfaces to reproduce the structure of water near graphene and mica. For mica surfaces, explicitly representing the density of the outer oxygen layer of the exposed silica tetrahedra allows water molecules to hydrogen-bond to the solid. When electrostatic interactions are included, water molecules assume a hybrid character, being accounted for implicitly in the dielectric constant but explicitly otherwise. The disjoining pressure between approaching like-charged surfaces is calculated, demonstrating the model's ability to probe pressure oscillations that arise during the expulsion of ions and water layers from the interfacial gap and predict strong interattractive stresses that form at narrow interfacial spacing when the surface charge is overscreened. This interattractive stress arises not due to in-plane correlations under strong electrostatic coupling but due to the out-of-plane structuring of associating ions and water molecules.
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- Thomas Petersen
- Sonny Astani Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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Benaglia S, Read H, Fumagalli L. Atomic-scale structure of interfacial water on gel and liquid phase lipid membranes. Faraday Discuss 2024; 249:453-468. [PMID: 37781876 PMCID: PMC10845012 DOI: 10.1039/d3fd00094j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Hydration of biological membranes is essential to a wide range of biological processes. In particular, it is intrinsically linked to lipid thermodynamic properties, which in turn influence key cell functions such as ion permeation and protein mobility. Experimental and theoretical studies of the surface of biomembranes have revealed the presence of an interfacial repulsive force, which has been linked to hydration or steric effects. Here, we directly characterise the atomic-scale structure of water near supported lipid membranes of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine in their gel and liquid phase through three-dimensional atomic force microscopy (3D AFM). First, we demonstrate the ability to probe the morphology of interfacial water of lipid bilayers in both phases with sub-molecular resolution by using ultrasharp tips. We then visualise the molecular arrangement of water at the lipid surface at different temperatures. Our experiments reveal that water is organised in multiple hydration layers on both the solid-ordered and liquid-disordered lipid phases. Furthermore, we observe a monotonic repulsive force, which becomes relevant only in the liquid phase. These results offer new insights into the water structuring near soft biological surfaces, and demonstrate the importance of investigating it with vertical and lateral sub-molecular resolution.
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- Simone Benaglia
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
- National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
- National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
- National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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Becker M, Loche P, Rezaei M, Wolde-Kidan A, Uematsu Y, Netz RR, Bonthuis DJ. Multiscale Modeling of Aqueous Electric Double Layers. Chem Rev 2024; 124:1-26. [PMID: 38118062 PMCID: PMC10785765 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/22/2023]
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From the stability of colloidal suspensions to the charging of electrodes, electric double layers play a pivotal role in aqueous systems. The interactions between interfaces, water molecules, ions and other solutes making up the electrical double layer span length scales from Ångströms to micrometers and are notoriously complex. Therefore, explaining experimental observations in terms of the double layer's molecular structure has been a long-standing challenge in physical chemistry, yet recent advances in simulations techniques and computational power have led to tremendous progress. In particular, the past decades have seen the development of a multiscale theoretical framework based on the combination of quantum density functional theory, force-field based simulations and continuum theory. In this Review, we discuss these theoretical developments and make quantitative comparisons to experimental results from, among other techniques, sum-frequency generation, atomic-force microscopy, and electrokinetics. Starting from the vapor/water interface, we treat a range of qualitatively different types of surfaces, varying from soft to solid, from hydrophilic to hydrophobic, and from charged to uncharged.
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- Fachbereich
Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Laboratory
of Computational Science and Modeling, IMX, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Fachbereich
Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Institute
of Theoretical Chemistry, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Department
of Physics and Information Technology, Kyushu
Institute of Technology, 820-8502 Iizuka, Japan
- PRESTO,
Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Fachbereich
Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Physics, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
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Dufils T, Schran C, Chen J, Geim AK, Fumagalli L, Michaelides A. Origin of dielectric polarization suppression in confined water from first principles. Chem Sci 2024; 15:516-527. [PMID: 38179530 PMCID: PMC10763014 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc04740g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
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It has long been known that the dielectric constant of confined water should be different from that in bulk. Recent experiments have shown that it is vanishingly small, however the origin of the phenomenon remains unclear. Here we used ab initio molecular dynamics simulations (AIMD) and AIMD-trained machine-learning potentials to understand water's structure and electronic properties underpinning this effect. For the graphene and hexagonal boron-nitride substrates considered, we find that it originates in the spontaneous anti-parallel alignment of the water dipoles in the first two water layers near the solid interface. The interfacial layers exhibit net ferroelectric ordering, resulting in an overall anti-ferroelectric arrangement of confined water. Together with constrained hydrogen-bonding orientations, this leads to much reduced out-of-plane polarization. Furthermore, we directly contrast AIMD and simple classical force-field simulations, revealing important differences. This work offers insight into a property of water that is critical in modulating surface forces, the electric-double-layer formation and molecular solvation, and shows a way to compute it.
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- T Dufils
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK
- National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 0HE UK
- Lennard-Jones Centre, University of Cambridge Trinity Ln Cambridge CB2 1TN UK
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- School of Physics, Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK
- National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK
- National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK
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- Lennard-Jones Centre, University of Cambridge Trinity Ln Cambridge CB2 1TN UK
- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1EW UK
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Chandra A, Kayal A, Das B, Chandra A. Dynamical Crossover of Interfacial Water upon Melting of a Lipid Bilayer: Influence of Different Parts of the Headgroups. J Phys Chem B 2023. [PMID: 38032152 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c04792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of a 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine bilayer in contact with liquid water were performed at different temperatures ranging from 285 to 320 K. We have investigated the heterogeneity and dynamical transitions in interfacial water as the lipid bilayer undergoes a melting transition. Results are obtained for water at the outer surface of the bilayer and for those buried more deeply in the lipid chains of the bilayer. It is found that lipid bilayer melting influences both the structure and dynamics of interfacial water. The number of interfacial water molecules shows a jump in the melting of the bilayer. The temperature dependence of the diffusivity and orientational relaxation of interfacial water molecules exhibits a dynamical crossover upon melting of the bilayer. The extent of dynamical crossover is found to be rather strong with significant changes in activation barriers for interfacial water around the carbonyl groups, which are deeply buried toward the lipid chains of the bilayer. The dynamical crossover gradually decreases as one moves further away from the outer surface, and it essentially vanishes for water in the region of 5-10 Å from the outer surface. It is found that the lipid melting-induced dynamical crossover of interfacial water is significant only for water that is in close proximity to the bilayer surface or deeply buried into it. The current results reveal that water molecules in different parts of the interface respond differently on melting of the bilayer. The current study also shows that the carbonyl-bound water molecules can play an important role in the phase transition of the bilayer as the temperature is raised through its melting point.
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- Abhilash Chandra
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India
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Chakraborty S, Bhattacharya I, Mitra RK. Solvation Plays a Key Role in Antioxidant-Mediated Attenuation of Elevated Creatinine Level: An In Vitro Spectroscopic Investigation. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:8576-8585. [PMID: 37769128 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c05334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
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An elevated level of creatinine (CRN) is a mark of kidney ailment, and prolonged retention of such condition could lead to renal failure, associated with severe ischemia. Antioxidants are clinically known to excrete CRN from the body through urine, thereby reducing its level in blood. The molecular mechanism of such an exclusion process is still illusive. As the excretion channel is urine, solvation of the solute is expected to play a pivotal role. Here, we report a detailed time-domain and frequency-domain terahertz (THz) spectroscopic investigation to understand the solvation of CRN in the presence of two model antioxidants, mostly used to treat elevated CRN level: N-Acetyl-l-cysteine (NAC) and ascorbic acid (ASC). FTIR spectroscopy in the mid-infrared region and UV absorption spectroscopy measurements coupled with quantum chemical calculations [at the B3LYP/6-311G++(d,p) level] reveal that both NAC and ASC form HBonded complexes with CRN and rapidly undergo a barrier-less proton transfer process to form creatinium ions. THz measurements provide explicit evidence of the formation of highly solvated complexes compared with bare CRN, which eventually enables its excretion through urine. These observations could provide a foundation for designing more beneficial drugs to resolve kidney diseases..
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- Subhadip Chakraborty
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences; Block-JD; Sector-III; Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences; Block-JD; Sector-III; Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences; Block-JD; Sector-III; Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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Penkov NV. Terahertz spectroscopy as a method for investigation of hydration shells of biomolecules. Biophys Rev 2023; 15:833-849. [PMID: 37974994 PMCID: PMC10643733 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-023-01131-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
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The hydration of biomolecules is one of the fundamental processes underlying the construction of living matter. The formation of the native conformation of most biomolecules is possible only in an aqueous environment. At the same time, not only water affects the structure of biomolecules, but also biomolecules affect the structure of water, forming hydration shells. However, the study of the structure of biomolecules is given much more attention than their hydration shells. A real breakthrough in the study of hydration occurred with the development of the THz spectroscopy method, which showed that the hydration shell of biomolecules is not limited to 1-2 layers of strongly bound water, but also includes more distant areas of hydration with altered molecular dynamics. This review examines the fundamental features of the THz frequency range as a source of information about the structural and dynamic characteristics of water that change during hydration. The applied approaches to the study of hydration shells of biomolecules based on THz spectroscopy are described. The data on the hydration of biomolecules of all main types obtained from the beginning of the application of THz spectroscopy to the present are summarized. The emphasis is placed on the possible participation of extended hydration shells in the realization of the biological functions of biomolecules and at the same time on the insufficient knowledge of their structural and dynamic characteristics.
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- Nikita V. Penkov
- Federal Research Center “Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Institute of Cell Biophysics RAS, 142290 Pushchino, Russia
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Furuhata K, Masuda H, Sato A, Miyata K, Shinyashiki N, Kita R, Imagawa K, Akamatsu T, Yagihara S. Aberrant Water Structure Dynamics in B16 Melanoma-Bearing Mice by Time Domain Refractometry Analysis. BIOLOGY 2023; 12:1250. [PMID: 37759649 PMCID: PMC10525127 DOI: 10.3390/biology12091250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 09/11/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
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Living bodies comprise approximately 55-75% water to maintain homeostasis. However, little is known about the comprehensive differences in in vivo water molecule dynamics (water structure dynamics; WSD) between physiological and pathophysiological statuses. Here, we examined the WSD of ex vivo tumor tissues and organs from tumor-bearing mice with engrafted mouse malignant melanoma cells (B16-F10) in the right flanks to compare with those in healthy mice, using time domain reflectometry of dielectric spectroscopy at days 9, 11, and 14 after engrafting. The relaxation parameters of relaxation time (τ), relaxation time distribution parameter (β), and relaxation strength (∆ε) were measured on tumor tissues and lung, liver, kidney, and skin tissues. Immediately afterward, the water contents (%) in the tumor and the other organs were calculated by measuring their weights before and after freeze-drying. Each parameter of the tumor was compared to that of pooled values of other organs in tumor-bearing (TO) and healthy mice (HO). The tumor water content temporarily increased compared to that of HO at day 11; the tumor volume was also prone to increase. In contrast, tumor tissues exhibited significantly higher values of β close to 1 of ultrapure water and ∆ε compared to TO and HO at all times. Moreover, β in the viscera of TO was prone to increase compared to that of HO with significantly higher levels at day 11. Conclusively, tumor-bearing mice exhibited systemically aberrant WSD, unlike healthy mice. Thus, dielectric spectroscopy in terms of WSD may provide novel pathophysiological perspectives in tumor-bearing living bodies.
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- Kahori Furuhata
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isehara Campus, Tokai University, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara 259-1193, Japan; (K.F.); (A.S.); (K.M.)
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isehara Campus, Tokai University, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara 259-1193, Japan; (K.F.); (A.S.); (K.M.)
- Regenerative Medicine Research Division, Shonan Research Institute of Innovative Medicine, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, 1370-1 Okamoto, Kamakura 247-8533, Japan
- Department of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, Isehara Campus, Tokai University, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara 259-1193, Japan; (K.I.); (T.A.)
- Department of Nutritional Science, Faculty of Applied Biosciences, Setagaya Campus, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1-1-1 Sakuragaoka, Tokyo 156-8502, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isehara Campus, Tokai University, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara 259-1193, Japan; (K.F.); (A.S.); (K.M.)
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isehara Campus, Tokai University, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara 259-1193, Japan; (K.F.); (A.S.); (K.M.)
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- Department of Physics, School of Science, Shonan Campus, Tokai University, 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka 259-1292, Japan; (N.S.); (R.K.); (S.Y.)
- Micro/Nano Technology Center, Shonan Campus, Tokai University, 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka 259-1292, Japan
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- Department of Physics, School of Science, Shonan Campus, Tokai University, 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka 259-1292, Japan; (N.S.); (R.K.); (S.Y.)
- Micro/Nano Technology Center, Shonan Campus, Tokai University, 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka 259-1292, Japan
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- Department of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, Isehara Campus, Tokai University, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara 259-1193, Japan; (K.I.); (T.A.)
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- Department of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, Isehara Campus, Tokai University, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara 259-1193, Japan; (K.I.); (T.A.)
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- Department of Physics, School of Science, Shonan Campus, Tokai University, 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka 259-1292, Japan; (N.S.); (R.K.); (S.Y.)
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Xu R, Lin T, Luo J, Chen X, Blackert ER, Moon AR, JeBailey KM, Zhu H. Phonon Polaritonics in Broad Terahertz Frequency Range with Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO 3. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2302974. [PMID: 37334883 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202302974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
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Photonics in the frequency range of 5-15 terahertz (THz) potentially open a new realm of quantum materials manipulation and biosensing. This range, sometimes called "the new terahertz gap", is traditionally difficult to access due to prevalent phonon absorption bands in solids. Low-loss phonon-polariton materials may realize sub-wavelength, on-chip photonic devices, but typically operate in mid-infrared frequencies with narrow bandwidths and are difficult to manufacture on a large scale. Here, for the first time, quantum paraelectric SrTiO3 enables broadband surface phonon-polaritonic devices in 7-13 THz. As a proof of concept, polarization-independent field concentrators are designed and fabricated to locally enhance intense, multicycle THz pulses by a factor of 6 and increase the spectral intensity by over 90 times. The time-resolved electric field inside the concentrators is experimentally measured by THz-field-induced second harmonic generation. Illuminated by a table-top light source, the average field reaches 0.5 GV m-1 over a large volume resolvable by far-field optics. These results potentially enable scalable THz photonics with high breakdown fields made of various commercially available phonon-polariton crystals for studying driven phases in quantum materials and nonlinear molecular spectroscopy.
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- Rui Xu
- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
- Applied Physics Graduate Program, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
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- Nanotechnology Research Experience for Undergraduates (Nano REU) Program, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
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Miyajima A, Nakao H, Ikeda K, Nakano M. The Nanometer-Scale Proximity of Bilayers Facilitates Intermembrane Lipid Transfer. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:4172-4178. [PMID: 37114850 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Biological membranes approach one another in various biological phenomena, such as lipid transport at membrane contact sites and membrane fusion. The proximity of two bilayers may cause environmental changes in the interbilayer space and alter the dynamics of lipid molecules. Here, we investigate the structure and dynamics of vesicles aggregated due to the depletion attraction caused by polyethylene glycol (PEG) through static and dynamic small-angle neutron scattering. Manipulation of the interbilayer distance using PEG-conjugated lipids reveals that lipid molecules rapidly transfer between vesicles when the opposing bilayers are within ∼2 nm of each other. This distance corresponds to a region in which water molecules are more structured than in bulk water. Kinetic analysis suggests that the decrease in water entropy is responsible for the progression of lipid transfer. These results provide a basis for understanding the dynamic function of biomembranes in confined regions.
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- Ayari Miyajima
- Department of Biointerface Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Biointerface Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Biointerface Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Biointerface Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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Garrett P, Shirley JC, Baiz CR. Forced Interactions: Ionic Polymers at Charged Surfactant Interfaces. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:2829-2836. [PMID: 36926899 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Characterizing electrostatic interactions at heterogeneous interfaces is critical for developing a fundamental description of the dynamic processes at charged interfaces. Water-in-oil reverse micelles (RMs) offer a high degree of tunability across composition, polarity, and temperature, making them ideal systems for studying interactions at heterogeneous liquid-liquid interfaces. In the present study, we use a combination of ultrafast two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to determine the picosecond interfacial dynamics in RMs containing binary compositions of sorbitan monostearate and anionic or cationic cosurfactants, which are used to tune the ratio of charged to nonionic surfactants at the interface. The positively charged polyethylenimine (PEI) polymer is encapsulated within the RMs, and the carbonyl stretching mode of sorbitan monostearate reports on the interfacial hydrogen-bond populations and dynamics. The results show that hydrogen-bond populations are altered through the inclusion of both negatively and positively charged cosurfactants. Charged surfactants increase interfacial water penetration into the surfactant layer, and the surface localization of polymers decreases water penetration. Local hydrogen-bond dynamics undergo a slowdown with the inclusion of charged surfactants, and the encapsulation of polymers results in similar effects, irrespective of the charge.
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- Paul Garrett
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Krzan M, Rey NG, Jarek E, Czakaj A, Santini E, Ravera F, Liggieri L, Warszynski P, Braunschweig B. Surface Properties of Saponin-Chitosan Mixtures. Molecules 2022; 27:7505. [PMID: 36364333 PMCID: PMC9658537 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27217505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 08/03/2024] Open
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The surface properties of saponin and saponin-chitosan mixtures were analysed as a function of their bulk mixing ratio using vibrational sum-frequency generation (SFG), surface tensiometry and dilational rheology measurements. Our experiments show that saponin-chitosan mixtures present some remarkable properties, such as a strong amphiphilicity of the saponin and high dilational viscoelasticity. We believe this points to the presence of chitosan in the adsorption layer, despite its complete lack of surface activity. We explain this phenomenon by electrostatic interactions between the saponin as an anionic surfactant and chitosan as a polycation, leading to surface-active saponin-chitosan complexes and aggregates. Analysing the SFG intensity of the O-H stretching bands from interfacial water molecules, we found that in the case of pH 3.4 for a mixture consisting of 0.1 g/L saponin and 0.001 g/L chitosan, the adsorption layer was electrically neutral. This conclusion from SFG spectra is corroborated by results from surface tensiometry showing a significant reduction in surface tension and effects on the dilational surface elasticity strictly at saponin/chitosan ratios, where SFG spectra indicate zero net charge at the air-water interface.
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- Marcel Krzan
- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Center for Soft Nanoscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 28/30, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Krakow, Poland
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Technologies for Energy, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Technologies for Energy, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Technologies for Energy, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Niezapominajek 8, 30-239 Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry and Center for Soft Nanoscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 28/30, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Kushida S, Wang K, Genet C, Ebbesen TW. Ultrafast Dynamics of Solute Molecules Probed by Resonant Optical Kerr Effect Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:9309-9315. [PMID: 36178160 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Ultrafast molecular dynamics in fluids is of great importance in many biological and chemical systems. Although such dynamics in bulk liquids has been explored by various methods, experimental tools that unveil the dynamics of solvated solutes are limited. In this work, we have developed resonant optical Kerr effect spectroscopy (ROKE), which is an analogue of optical Kerr effect spectroscopy that measures the reorientational relaxation of a dilute solute in solution. By adjusting the pump and probe wavelengths at the resonant absorption band of a solute, the time response of the solute was distinguished easily from the negligible signal of the solvent. The heterodyne detection of ROKE enables the determination of reorientational relaxation time constants with an accuracy of 2.6%. The signal-to-noise ratio was high enough (average ∼26.7) to obtain an adequate signal from even a 10 μM solution. Thus, ROKE is a powerful tool to study solute dynamics with high sensitivity in a broad range of applications.
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- Soh Kushida
- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000Strasbourg, France
- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science (TREMS), University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba305-8577, Japan
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000Strasbourg, France
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000Strasbourg, France
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000Strasbourg, France
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Pluhařová E, Stirnemann G, Laage D. On water reorientation dynamics in cation hydration shells. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Toxic Effect of Metal Doping on Diatoms as Probed by Broadband Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27185897. [PMID: 36144633 PMCID: PMC9504612 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27185897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Revised: 09/04/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The global marine environment is increasingly affected by human activities causing climate change, eutrophication, and pollution. These factors influence the metabolic mechanisms of phytoplankton species, such as diatoms. Among other pollutant agents, heavy metals can have dramatic effects on diatom viability. Detailed knowledge of the interaction of diatoms with metals is essential from both a fundamental and applicative point of view. To this aim, we assess terahertz time-domain spectroscopy as a tool for sensing the diatoms in aqueous systems which mimic their natural environment. Despite the strong absorption of terahertz radiation in water, we show that diatoms can be sensed by probing the water absorption enhancement in the terahertz range caused by the water–diatom interaction. We reveal that the addition of metal dopants affects this absorption enhancement, thus enabling the monitoring of the toxic effects of metals on diatoms using terahertz spectroscopy. We demonstrate that this technique can detect the detrimental effects of heavy metals earlier than conventional methods such as microscopy, enzymatic assays, and molecular analyses aimed at assessing the overexpression of genes involved in the heavy metal-stress response.
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Zhang J, Yan Y, Wang B, Liu L, Li S, Tian Z, Ouyang C, Gu J, Zhang X, Chen Y, Han J, Zhang W. Water dynamics in the hydration shell of hyper-branched poly-ethylenimine. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:18393-18400. [PMID: 35880732 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01944b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We performed THz and GHz dielectric relaxation spectroscopy to investigate the reorientational dynamics of water molecules in the hydration shell of amphiphilic hyper-branched poly-ethylenimine (HPEI). Four Debye equations were employed to describe four types of water in the hydration shell, including bulk-like water, under-coordinated water, slow water (water molecules hydrating the hydrophobic groups and water molecules accepting hydrogen bonds from the NH2 groups) and super slow water (water molecules donating hydrogen bonds to and accepting hydrogen bonds from NH groups). The time scales of undercoordinated and bulk-like water show a slight decline from 0.4 to 0.1 ps and from 8 to 2 ps, respectively. Because of hydrophilic amino groups, HPEI molecules exhibit a strong retardation effect, where the time scales of slow and super slow water increase with concentration from 17 to 39.9 ps and from 88 to 225 ps, respectively.
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- Jiaqi Zhang
- Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tinajin 300072, People's Republic of China.
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- Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tinajin 300072, People's Republic of China.
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- Tianjin Engineering Technology Center of Chemical Wastewater Source Reduction and Recycling, School of Science, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China
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- Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tinajin 300072, People's Republic of China.
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- Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tinajin 300072, People's Republic of China.
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- Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tinajin 300072, People's Republic of China.
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- Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tinajin 300072, People's Republic of China.
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- Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tinajin 300072, People's Republic of China.
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- Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tinajin 300072, People's Republic of China.
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300354, China
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- Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tinajin 300072, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA.
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Zhou S. Effective electrostatic forces between two neutral surfaces with surface charge separation: valence asymmetry and dielectric constant heterogeneity. Mol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2022.2094296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- S. Zhou
- School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China
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Li Q, Kölbel J, Davis MP, Korter TM, Bond AD, Threlfall T, Zeitler JA. In Situ Observation of the Structure of Crystallizing Magnesium Sulfate Heptahydrate Solutions with Terahertz Transmission Spectroscopy. CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 2022; 22:3961-3972. [PMID: 35673396 PMCID: PMC9165030 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy in a transmission geometry combined with visual analysis was used to investigate the crystallization process of MgSO4 solution. Careful spectral analysis of both a feature at 1.6 THz and the overall magnitude of absorption allowed the extraction of information about the liquid phase before and during crystallization, aiding the investigation of solvation dynamics and the behavior of molecular species at phase boundaries. The method was reproducibly applied to a number of measurements on a series of solutions of three chosen concentrations at different temperatures. When increasing temperature at the end of the measurement, the dissolution of crystals was observed as well. The temperature-dependent absorption data of the semicrystalline systems were converted to the solvent concentrations using a recently developed method. Solutions of a series of concentrations were also investigated in the temperature range of 4-25 °C. The results were compared to the theoretical calculated values, and the consistent differences proved the existence of a hydration shell around the salt ions whose behavior is different from bulk water. Future work will focus on triggering nucleation at specific positions in order to study the very beginning of the crystallization process. MgSO4 heptahydrate is used as a model system in this study, while the concept and the setup can be applied to other systems.
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- Qi Li
- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry, Syracuse University, 1-046 Center for Science and Technology, Syracuse, New York 13244, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Syracuse University, 1-046 Center for Science and Technology, Syracuse, New York 13244, United States
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- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield
Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
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Modeling and Simulation of Lipid Membranes. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:membranes12060549. [PMID: 35736255 PMCID: PMC9228261 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12060549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Zhang R, Cross TA, Peng X, Fu R. Surprising Rigidity of Functionally Important Water Molecules Buried in the Lipid Headgroup Region. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:7881-7888. [PMID: 35439409 PMCID: PMC9165019 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Understanding water dynamics and structure is an important topic in biological systems. It is generally held in the literature that the interfacial water of hydrated phospholipids is highly mobile, in fast exchange with the bulk water ranging from the nano- to femtosecond timescale. Although nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful tool for structural and dynamic studies, direct probing of interfacial water in hydrated phospholipids is formidably challenging due to the extreme population difference between bulk and interfacial water. We developed a novel 17O solid-state NMR technique in combination with an ultra-high-field magnet (35.2 T) to directly probe the functionally important interfacial water. By selectively suppressing the dominant bulk water signal, we observed two distinct water species in the headgroup region of hydrated dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) lipid bilayers for the first time. One water species denoted as "confined water" is chemically and dynamically different from the bulk water (∼0.17 ppm downfield and a slightly shorter spin-lattice relaxation time). Another water species denoted as "bound water" has severely restricted motion and a distinct chemical shift (∼12 ppm upfield). Additionally, the bulk water is not as "free" as pure water, resulting from the fast exchange with the water molecules that weakly and transiently interact with the lipid choline groups. These new discoveries clearly indicate the existence of the interfacial water molecules that are relatively stable over the NMR timescale (on the order of milliseconds), providing an opportunity to characterize water dynamics on the millisecond or slower timescale in biomacromolecules.
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- Rongfu Zhang
- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32301, United States
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32301, United States
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Microscale Magnetic Resonance and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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Alves-Lima D, Li X, Coulson B, Nesling E, Ludlam G, Degl’Innocenti R, Dawson R, Peruffo M, Lin H. Evaluation of water states in thin proton exchange membrane manufacturing using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Lee E, You X, Baiz CR. Interfacial dynamics in inverted-headgroup lipid membranes. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:075102. [PMID: 35183070 PMCID: PMC8858029 DOI: 10.1063/5.0080153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Inverted-headgroup (choline-phosphate) lipids are synthetic lipids that are not found in nature and are used as model systems to understand the role of headgroup dipole orientation. Recently, studies revealed that the net orientation of interfacial water strongly depends on the headgroup electrostatics, i.e., the charges and dipole generated by the phosphate and the choline groups. In order to characterize interfacial H-bond dynamics, we measured two-dimensional infrared spectra of the ester carbonyl band and performed molecular dynamics simulations in fully hydrated 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine and 2-((2,3-bis(oleoyloxy)propyl)-dimethyl-ammonio)ethyl ethyl phosphate (DOCPe) lipid bilayers. The experiments and simulations suggest that the reverse dipole generated by the inverted-headgroup in DOCPe does not affect the carbonyl H-bond populations or the interfacial water H-bond dynamics. However, while phosphate-associated waters in both lipids appear to show a similar H-bond structure, carbonyl-associated waters are characterized by a slightly disrupted H-bond structure in the DOCPe bilayer, especially within the second hydration shell. Our findings show that changes in net water orientation perturb the water H-bonds at the linker region between the headgroup and the lipid tail, although this perturbation is weak.
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Scollo F, Evci H, Amaro M, Jurkiewicz P, Sykora J, Hof M. What Does Time-Dependent Fluorescence Shift (TDFS) in Biomembranes (and Proteins) Report on? Front Chem 2021; 9:738350. [PMID: 34778202 PMCID: PMC8586494 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.738350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The organization of biomolecules and bioassemblies is highly governed by the nature and extent of their interactions with water. These interactions are of high intricacy and a broad range of methods based on various principles have been introduced to characterize them. As these methods view the hydration phenomena differently (e.g., in terms of time and length scales), a detailed insight in each particular technique is to promote the overall understanding of the stunning “hydration world.” In this prospective mini-review we therefore critically examine time-dependent fluorescence shift (TDFS)—an experimental method with a high potential for studying the hydration in the biological systems. We demonstrate that TDFS is very useful especially for phospholipid bilayers for mapping the interfacial region formed by the hydrated lipid headgroups. TDFS, when properly applied, reports on the degree of hydration and mobility of the hydrated phospholipid segments in the close vicinity of the fluorophore embedded in the bilayer. Here, the interpretation of the recorded TDFS parameters are thoroughly discussed, also in the context of the findings obtained by other experimental techniques addressing the hydration phenomena (e.g., molecular dynamics simulations, NMR spectroscopy, scattering techniques, etc.). The differences in the interpretations of TDFS outputs between phospholipid biomembranes and proteins are also addressed. Additionally, prerequisites for the successful TDFS application are presented (i.e., the proper choice of fluorescence dye for TDFS studies, and TDFS instrumentation). Finally, the effects of ions and oxidized phospholipids on the bilayer organization and headgroup packing viewed from TDFS perspective are presented as application examples.
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- Federica Scollo
- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS, Prague, Czechia
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- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS, Prague, Czechia
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- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS, Prague, Czechia
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- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS, Prague, Czechia
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- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS, Prague, Czechia
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- J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS, Prague, Czechia
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Pal S, Chattopadhyay A. Hydration Dynamics in Biological Membranes: Emerging Applications of Terahertz Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:9697-9709. [PMID: 34590862 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Water drives the spontaneous self-assembly of lipids and proteins into quasi two-dimensional biological membranes that act as catalytic scaffolds for numerous processes central to life. However, the functional relevance of hydration in membrane biology is only beginning to be addressed, predominantly because of challenges associated with direct measurements of hydration microstructure and dynamics in a biological milieu. Our recent work on the novel interplay of membrane electrostatics and crowding in shaping membrane hydration dynamics utilizing terahertz (THz) spectroscopy represents an important step in this context. In this Perspective, we provide a glimpse into the ever-broadening functional landscape of hydration dynamics in biological membranes in the backdrop of the unique physical chemistry of water molecules. We further highlight the immense (and largely untapped) potential of the THz toolbox in addressing contemporary problems in membrane biology, while emphasizing the adaptability of the analytical framework reported recently by us to such studies.
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- Sreetama Pal
- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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The thermodynamic stability of water next to graphitic surfaces is of fundamental interest, as it underlies several natural phenomena and important industrial processes. It is commonly assumed that water wets graphite more than graphene due to increased, favorable van der Waals interactions between the interfacial water molecules with multiple carbon sheets. Here, we employed extensive computer simulations and analysis of the molecular correlation functions to show that the interfacial water thermodynamics is in fact dominated by surface entropy. We show that on graphite, destabilization of the interfacial hydrogen bond network leads to an overcompensating increase in population of low frequency translational and librational modes, which is ultimately responsible for the increased interfacial stability compared to graphene. The spectroscopic signature of this effect is an enhancement of the modes near 100 and 300 cm-1. This subtle interplay between entropy and surface binding may have important consideration for interpretations of various phenomena, including the hydrophobic effect.
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- Tod A Pascal
- ATLAS Materials Physics Laboratory, Department of NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- Materials Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Tharushi Perera PG, Todorova N, Vilagosh Z, Bazaka O, Nguyen THP, Bazaka K, Crawford RJ, Croft RJ, Yarovsky I, Ivanova EP. Translocation of silica nanospheres through giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) induced by a high frequency electromagnetic field. RSC Adv 2021; 11:31408-31420. [PMID: 35496859 PMCID: PMC9041541 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra05459g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Membrane model systems capable of mimicking live cell membranes were used for the first time in studying the effects arising from electromagnetic fields (EMFs) of 18 GHz where membrane permeability was observed following exposure. A present lack of understanding of the mechanisms that drive such a rapid change in membrane permeabilization as well as any structural or dynamic changes imparted on biomolecules affected by high-frequency electromagnetic irradiation limits the use of 18 GHz EMFs in biomedical applications. A phospholipid, 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) labelled with a fluorescent marker 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-(lissamine rhodamine B sulfonyl) (rhodamine-DOPE) was used in constructing the giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). After three cycles of exposure, enhanced membrane permeability was observed by the internalisation of hydrophilic silica nanospheres of 23.5 nm and their clusters. All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) membranes exposed to high frequency electric fields of different field strengths showed that within the simulation timeframe only extremely high strength fields were able to cause an increase in the interfacial water dynamics characterized by water dipole realignments. However, a lower strength, high frequency EMF induced changes of the water hydrogen bond network, which may contribute to the mechanisms that facilitate membrane permeabilization in a longer timeframe.
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- Palalle G Tharushi Perera
- School of Science, RMIT University PO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
- Faculty Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
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- School of Engineering, RMIT University PO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
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- Faculty Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University PO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
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- School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2600 Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University PO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
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- School of Psychology, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
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- School of Engineering, RMIT University PO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University PO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia
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Cherkasova OP, Serdyukov DS, Nemova EF, Ratushnyak AS, Kucheryavenko AS, Dolganova IN, Xu G, Skorobogatiy M, Reshetov IV, Timashev PS, Spektor IE, Zaytsev KI, Tuchin VV. Cellular effects of terahertz waves. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2021; 26:JBO-210179VR. [PMID: 34595886 PMCID: PMC8483303 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.26.9.090902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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SIGNIFICANCE An increasing interest in the area of biological effects at exposure of tissues and cells to the terahertz (THz) radiation is driven by a rapid progress in THz biophotonics, observed during the past decades. Despite the attractiveness of THz technology for medical diagnosis and therapy, there is still quite limited knowledge about safe limits of THz exposure. Different modes of THz exposure of tissues and cells, including continuous-wave versus pulsed radiation, various powers, and number and duration of exposure cycles, ought to be systematically studied. AIM We provide an overview of recent research results in the area of biological effects at exposure of tissues and cells to THz waves. APPROACH We start with a brief overview of general features of the THz-wave-tissue interactions, as well as modern THz emitters, with an emphasis on those that are reliable for studying the biological effects of THz waves. Then, we consider three levels of biological system organization, at which the exposure effects are considered: (i) solutions of biological molecules; (ii) cultures of cells, individual cells, and cell structures; and (iii) entire organs or organisms; special attention is devoted to the cellular level. We distinguish thermal and nonthermal mechanisms of THz-wave-cell interactions and discuss a problem of adequate estimation of the THz biological effects' specificity. The problem of experimental data reproducibility, caused by rareness of the THz experimental setups and an absence of unitary protocols, is also considered. RESULTS The summarized data demonstrate the current stage of the research activity and knowledge about the THz exposure on living objects. CONCLUSIONS This review helps the biomedical optics community to summarize up-to-date knowledge in the area of cell exposure to THz radiation, and paves the ways for the development of THz safety standards and THz therapeutic applications.
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- Olga P. Cherkasova
- Institute of Laser Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Laser Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Laser Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Computational Technologies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- Sechenov University, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Russian Federation
- Sechenov University, World-Class Research Center “Digital Biodesign and Personalized Healthcare,” Russian Federation
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- Polytechnique Montreal, Department of Engineering Physics, Canada
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- Sechenov University, Institute for Cluster Oncology, Russian Federation
- Academy of Postgraduate Education FSCC FMBA, Russian Federation
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- Sechenov University, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Russian Federation
- Sechenov University, World-Class Research Center “Digital Biodesign and Personalized Healthcare,” Russian Federation
- N.N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Department of Polymers and Composites, Russian Federation
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry, Russian Federation
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
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- Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- Sechenov University, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Russian Federation
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russian Federation
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- Saratov State University, Russian Federation
- Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- National Research Tomsk State University, Russian Federation
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Malik S, Debnath A. Dehydration induced dynamical heterogeneity and ordering mechanism of lipid bilayers. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:174904. [PMID: 34241050 DOI: 10.1063/5.0044614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Understanding the influence of dehydration on the membrane structure is crucial to control membrane functionality related to domain formation and cell fusion under anhydrobiosis conditions. To this end, we perform all-atom molecular dynamic simulations of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine lipid membranes at different hydration levels at 308 K. As dehydration increases, the lipid area per head group decreases with an increase in bilayer thickness and lipid order parameters indicating bilayer ordering. Concurrently, translational and rotational dynamics of interfacial water (IW) molecules near membranes slow down. On the onset of bilayer ordering, the IW molecules exhibit prominent features of dynamical heterogeneity evident from non-Gaussian parameters and one-dimensional van Hove correlation functions. At a fully hydrated state, diffusion constants (D) of the IW follow a scaling relation, D∼τα -1, where the α relaxation time (τα) is obtained from self-intermediate scattering functions. However, upon dehydration, the relation breaks and the D of the IW follows a power law behavior as D∼τα -0.57, showing the signature of glass dynamics. τα and hydrogen bond lifetime calculated from intermittent hydrogen bond auto-correlation functions undergo a similar crossover in association with bilayer ordering on dehydration. The bilayer ordering is accompanied with an increase in fraction of caged lipids spanned over the bilayer surface and a decrease in fraction of mobile lipids due to the non-diffusive dynamics. Our analyses reveal that the microscopic mechanism of lipid ordering by dehydration is governed by dynamical heterogeneity. The fundamental understanding from this study can be applied to complex bio-membranes to trap functionally relevant gel-like domains at room temperature.
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- Sheeba Malik
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Karwad, Rajasthan, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Karwad, Rajasthan, India
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Chattopadhyay M, Orlikowska H, Krok E, Piatkowski L. Sensing Hydration of Biomimetic Cell Membranes. BIOSENSORS 2021; 11:241. [PMID: 34356712 PMCID: PMC8301980 DOI: 10.3390/bios11070241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Biological membranes play a vital role in cell functioning, providing structural integrity, controlling signal transduction, and controlling the transport of various chemical species. Owing to the complex nature of biomembranes, the self-assembly of lipids in aqueous media has been utilized to develop model systems mimicking the lipid bilayer structure, paving the way to elucidate the mechanisms underlying various biological processes, as well as to develop a number of biomedical and technical applications. The hydration properties of lipid bilayers are crucial for their activity in various cellular processes. Of particular interest is the local membrane dehydration, which occurs in membrane fusion events, including neurotransmission, fertilization, and viral entry. The lack of universal technique to evaluate the local hydration state of the membrane components hampers understanding of the molecular-level mechanisms of these processes. Here, we present a new approach to quantify the hydration state of lipid bilayers. It takes advantage of the change in the lateral diffusion of lipids that depends on the number of water molecules hydrating them. Using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching technique, we applied this approach to planar single and multicomponent supported lipid bilayers. The method enables the determination of the hydration level of a biomimetic membrane down to a few water molecules per lipid.
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- Faculty of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Institute of Physics, Division of Molecular Physics, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 60-965 Poznan, Poland; (H.O.); (E.K.)
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Rajbangshi J, Mukherjee K, Biswas R. Heterogeneous Orientational Relaxations and Translation–Rotation Decoupling in (Choline Chloride + Urea) Deep Eutectic Solvents: Investigation through Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Dielectric Relaxation Measurements. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:5920-5936. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c01501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Juriti Rajbangshi
- Department of Chemical, Biological and Macro-molecular Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD-Block, Sector-III, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Macro-molecular Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD-Block, Sector-III, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Macro-molecular Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD-Block, Sector-III, Kolkata 700106, India
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Penkov NV, Penkova N. Key Differences of the Hydrate Shell Structures of ATP and Mg·ATP Revealed by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy and Dynamic Light Scattering. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:4375-4382. [PMID: 33882673 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c02276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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ATP is one of the main biological molecules. Many of its biological and physicochemical properties, such as energy capacity of the phosphate bonds, significantly depend on hydration. However, the structure of the hydration shell of the ATP molecule is still a matter of discussion. In this work, the hydration shells of ATP in water and MgCl2 solutions were examined by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and dynamic light scattering. Terahertz spectroscopy reveals the distorted water structure in the ATP water solution displaying tightly bound water molecules, which could be explained by the hydration of phosphate groups. Upon ATP binding to a Mg2+ ion, the situation is principally different: Instead of the distorted water structure, its arranged structure with increased hydrogen bond number is observed. Dynamic light scattering showed that the hydrodynamic diameter of ATP increases by 0.5 nm after Mg2+ binding. Meanwhile, according the characteristics of scattering, the increase of the shell size occurs via formation of a layer with a refraction coefficient similar to water. This layer can be interpreted as hydration shell differing from unaltered water by increased number of hydrogen bonds.
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- Nikita V Penkov
- Institute of Cell Biophysics RAS, Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Pushchino 142290, Russia
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- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino 142290, Russia
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Molecular dynamics of poly(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethyl methacrylate) hydrogels studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy. POLYMER 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2021.123618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Near-field sensor array with 65-GHz CMOS oscillators for rapid detection of viable Escherichia coli. Biosens Bioelectron 2021; 176:112935. [PMID: 33418183 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2020.112935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 11/21/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this study, the growth of Escherichia coli was monitored using a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) near-field sensor array. Each of the 1488 integrated elements, arranged in a 3 mm square, has a resonator that oscillates at 65 GHz. The effective capacitance of the resonator is altered by changes in the dielectric properties of the sensor surface, which shifts the resonance frequency. Growth curves of E. coli at different initial concentrations (OD600 = 0.01, 0.03, and 0.05) were monitored. A suspension with initial turbidity of OD600 = 0.05 was cultured in a medium, and the sensor successfully distinguished between viable E. coli and heat-treated dead E. coli in 20 min. Moreover, the apparent suppression of growth was observed in the presence of 500 μg/mL streptomycin. As the sensor is composed of arrayed elements, and the area of sensitivity distribution of the element is larger than the size of one bacteria, the variation in the output value of each element may reflect the number and movement of bacteria. This study revealed that the presence of viable E. coli could be rapidly confirmed by using the change in permittivity caused by the displacement of media by E. coli near the sensor surface.
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Water determines the properties of biological systems. Therefore, understanding the nature of the mutual interaction between water and biosystems is of primary importance for a proper assessment of any biological activity, e.g., the efficacy of new drugs or vaccines. A convenient way to characterize the interactions between biosystems and water is to analyze their impact on water density and dynamics in the proximity of the interfaces. It is commonly accepted that water bulk density and dynamical properties are recovered at distances of the order of 1 nm away from the surface of biological systems. This notion leads to the definition of hydration or biological water as the nanoscopic layer of water covering the surface of biosystems and to the expectation that all the effects of the water-interface interaction are limited to this thin region. Here, we review some of our latest contributions, showing that phospholipid membranes affect the water dynamics, structural properties, and hydrogen bond network at a distance that is more than twice as large as the commonly evoked ∼1nm thick layer and of the order of 2.4 nm. Furthermore, we unveil that at a shorter distance ∼0.5nm from the membrane, instead, there is an additional interface between lipid-bound and unbound water. Bound water has a structural role in the stability of the membrane. Our results imply that the concept of hydration water should be revised or extended and pave the way to a deeper understanding of the mutual interactions between water and biological systems.
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Yadav N, Ganguli AK. Mechanistic understanding of growth of nanorods in microemulsions. J INDIAN CHEM SOC 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jics.2021.100038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Penkov NV, Yashin VA, Belosludtsev KN. Hydration Shells of DPPC Liposomes from the Point of View of Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2021; 75:189-198. [PMID: 32705897 DOI: 10.1177/0003702820949285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Analysis of structural and dynamic properties of water in suspensions of liposomes composed from 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) in three phase states (gel, rippled gel, liquid crystalline phase) by means of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy in 0.3-3.3 THz range was conducted in the current work. Fraction of free water molecules in DPPC liposome suspension was shown to decrease with temperature (compared to the analogous aqueous solution without liposomes), and intermolecular water binding was enhanced. The most crucial changes occur during gel-rippled gel phase transition (pretransition): at temperatures below pretransition point, liposomes alleviate water binding degree, while at temperatures above the transition point, they enhance water binding. This study has demonstrated the high information content of the terahertz time-domain spectroscopy method for exploring the hydration properties of phospholipids in water.
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- Nikita V Penkov
- Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences-Federal Research Center, Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
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- Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences-Federal Research Center, Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
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- Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
- Mari State University, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia
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Qi C, Zhu Z, Wang C, Zheng Y. Anomalously Low Dielectric Constant of Ordered Interfacial Water. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:931-937. [PMID: 33439661 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Despite considerable effort, the dielectric constant of interfacial water at solid surfaces is still not fully understood, thus hindering our understanding of the ubiquitous physical interactions in many materials and biological surfaces. In this study, we used molecular dynamics simulations to show that the parallel dielectric constant at the solid/water interface depends on solid-water interactions as well as the interfacial water structure on various solid crystal faces. In particular, ordered water structures can lead to a significant reduction (∼44%) in the parallel dielectric constant at the solid/water interface compared with that of bulk water. This sharp decrease in the parallel dielectric constant can be attributed to the specific antiferroelectric ordered structure of interfacial water molecules, which significantly suppresses the amplitude of the dipolar fluctuation associated with both the number of hydrogen bonds and the degree of order of interfacial water.
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- Chonghai Qi
- School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
- Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- School of Optical-Electrical Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- Zhangjiang Lab Interdisplinary Research Center, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
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- School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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Martelli F, Crain J, Franzese G. Network Topology in Water Nanoconfined between Phospholipid Membranes. ACS NANO 2020; 14:8616-8623. [PMID: 32578978 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c02984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Water provides the driving force for the assembly and stability of many cellular components. Despite its impact on biological functions, a nanoscale understanding of the relationship between its structure and dynamics under soft confinement has remained elusive. As expected, water in contact with biological membranes recovers its bulk density and dynamics at ∼1 nm from phospholipid headgroups but surprisingly enhances its intermediate range order (IRO) over a distance, at least, twice as large. Here, we explore how the IRO is related to the water's hydrogen-bond network (HBN) and its coordination defects. We characterize the increased IRO by an alteration of the HBN up to more than eight coordination shells of hydration water. The HBN analysis emphasizes the existence of a bound-unbound water interface at ∼0.8 nm from the membrane. The unbound water has a distribution of defects intermediate between bound and bulk water, but with density and dynamics similar to bulk, while bound water has reduced thermal energy and many more HBN defects than low-temperature water. This observation could be fundamental for developing nanoscale models of biological interactions and for understanding how alteration of the water structure and topology, for example, due to changes in extracellular ions concentration, could affect diseases and signaling. More generally, it gives us a different perspective to study nanoconfined water.
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- Fausto Martelli
- Hartree Centre, IBM Research Europe, Daresbury WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
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- Hartree Centre, IBM Research Europe, Daresbury WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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- Secció de Física Estadística i Interdisciplinària, Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, and Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB), Universitat de Barcelona, C. Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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He H, Liu Z, Chen S, He X, Wang X, Wang X. Active Role of Water in the Hydration of Macromolecules with Ionic End Group for Hydrophobic Effect-Caused Assembly. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Huiwen He
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, 18 Chaowang Road, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, 18 Chaowang Road, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, 18 Chaowang Road, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
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Venkatraman RK, Baiz CR. Ultrafast Dynamics at the Lipid-Water Interface: DMSO Modulates H-Bond Lifetimes. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:6502-6511. [PMID: 32423219 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a common cosolvent and cryopreservation agent used to freeze cells and tissues. DMSO alters the H-bond structure of water, but its interactions with biomolecules and, specifically, with biological interfaces remain poorly understood. Here we investigate the effects of DMSO on the H-bond dynamics at the lipid-water interface using a combination of ultrafast two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations. Ester carbonyl absorption spectra show that DMSO dehydrates the interface, and simulations show that the area per lipid is decreased. Ultrafast 2D IR spectra measure the time scales of frequency fluctuations at the ester carbonyl positions located precisely between the hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions of the membrane. 2D IR measurements show that low DMSO concentrations (<10 mol %) induce ∼40% faster H-bond dynamics compared with pure water, whereas increased concentrations (>10-20 mol %) once again slow down the dynamics. This slow-fast-slow trend is described in terms of two different solvation regimes. Below 10 mol %, DMSO weakens the interfacial H bond, leading to faster "bulk-like" dynamics, whereas above 10 mol %, water molecules become "relatively immobilized" as the H-bond networks becoming disrupted by the H-bond donor/acceptor imbalance at the interface. These studies are an important step toward characterizing the environments around lipid membranes, which are essential to numerous biological processes.
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- Ravi Kumar Venkatraman
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Gennaro A, Rosa AS, Cornelis P, Pfeiffer H, Disalvo EA, Wagner P, Wübbenhorst M. A compact device for simultaneous dielectric spectroscopy and microgravimetric analysis under controlled humidity. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2019; 90:125106. [PMID: 31893814 DOI: 10.1063/1.5125301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Water plays a key role in the functioning of natural and synthetic molecular systems. Despite several hydration studies, different techniques are employed individually for monitoring different physical features such as kinetics, dynamics, and absorption. This study describes a compact hydration cell that enables simultaneous dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) and mass loss/uptake measurements in thin organic layers under controlled humidity conditions and in a wide temperature range. This approach enabled us to correlate the physical quantities obtained during the same experiment by complementary techniques. To demonstrate the performance of this device, a 200 nm thick poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) layer was measured at various relative humidity levels (0%-75%), temperatures (25-75 °C), and frequencies (DRS: 0.1 Hz-1 MHz) to study how hydration and dehydration processes affect its molecular dynamics. The results show the capability of this setup to study the changes in the PMMA film regarding the kinetics and molecular dynamics upon variation of the water content.
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- Alessia Gennaro
- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics (ZMB), Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Applied Biophysics and Food Research Center (Centro de Investigaciones en Biofísica Aplicada y Alimentos, CIBAAL), National University of Santiago del Estero and National Scientific and Technical Research Council CONICET, RN 9 - Km 1125, 4206 Santiago del Estero, Argentina
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- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics (ZMB), Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven, Department of Materials Engineering (MTM), Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Applied Biophysics and Food Research Center (Centro de Investigaciones en Biofísica Aplicada y Alimentos, CIBAAL), National University of Santiago del Estero and National Scientific and Technical Research Council CONICET, RN 9 - Km 1125, 4206 Santiago del Estero, Argentina
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- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics (ZMB), Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics (ZMB), Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Mukherjee K, Barman A, Biswas R. Hydration dynamics in aqueous Pluronic P123 solution: Concentration and temperature dependence. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:184901. [PMID: 31731866 DOI: 10.1063/1.5124526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Here, we report the concentration (0 ≤ wt. % ≤ 30) and temperature (293 ≤ T/K ≤ 318) dependent structural and dynamical changes in an aqueous solution of a triblock copolymer (Pluronic P123) using dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS), covering a frequency regime, 0.2 ≤ ν/GHz ≤ 50. Remarkable existence of slow water molecules, ∼2 times slower than bulk type water, along with bulk-like water molecules has been detected in the present DR measurements. Differential scanning calorimetric measurements support this DR observation. The signature of the sol-gel phase transition (∼15.0 wt. %, 293 K) and temperature induced extensive dehydration (>60%) for P123 molecules, which are the other notable findings of the present work. Moreover, the rate of dehydration with temperature has been found to depend on the phase of the medium. However, dehydration follows a nonlinear pattern in both sol and gel phases. A subnanosecond (∼90 ps) component, possibly originating from the hydrogen bond relaxation dynamics of the terminal C-O-H of polymer chains, has also been observed.
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- Kallol Mukherjee
- Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences (CBMS), S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences (CMPMS), S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences (CBMS), S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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Kadomura Y, Yamamoto N, Tominaga K. Broadband dielectric spectroscopy from sub GHz to THz of hydrated lipid bilayer of DMPC. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2019; 42:139. [PMID: 31664606 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2019-11901-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In order to study the dynamics of a phospholipid and its hydration water, we measured complex dielectric spectra of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) from the sub-GHz to the THz frequency region with varying the temperature and hydration level of the sample. Spectra obtained from a vector network analyzer and two terahertz time-domain spectrometers are adjusted, which enables us to analyze the dielectric spectra from the sub-GHz region to the THz region by a model function. We confirmed a fast relaxational mode in the sub-THz region, which was suggested by the previous work which only used a THz spectrometer.
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- Yu Kadomura
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 657-8501, Nada, Kobe, Japan
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- Jichi Medical University, 3311-1 Yakushiji, 329-0498, Shimotsuke-shi, Tochigi-ken, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 657-8501, Nada, Kobe, Japan.
- Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University, 657-8501, Nada, Kobe, Japan.
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Tarif E, Mukherjee K, Kumbhakar K, Barman A, Biswas R. Dynamics at the non-ionic micelle/water interface: Impact of linkage substitution. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:154902. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5121334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Ejaj Tarif
- Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences (CBMS), S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences (CBMS), S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences (CBMS), S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences (CMPMS), S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences (CBMS), S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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Non-invasive macroscopic and molecular quantification of water in Nafion® and SPEEK Proton Exchange Membranes using terahertz spectroscopy. J Memb Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.117183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lee E, Kundu A, Jeon J, Cho M. Water hydrogen-bonding structure and dynamics near lipid multibilayer surface: Molecular dynamics simulation study with direct experimental comparison. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:114705. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5120456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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- Euihyun Lee
- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max-Born-Str. 2a, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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Das Mahanta D, Islam SI, Choudhury S, Das DK, Mitra RK, Barman A. Contrasting hydration dynamics in DME and DMSO aqueous solutions: A combined optical pump-probe and GHz-THz dielectric relaxation investigation. J Mol Liq 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2019.111194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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