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Malik R, Das B, Chandra A. Theoretical Two Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions of tert-Butyl Alcohol: Variation of the Dynamics of Spectral Diffusion along the Percolation Transition. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:4099-4111. [PMID: 37126459 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Binary mixtures of water and tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) are known to exhibit the so-called percolation transition where small clusters of TBA molecules span into large aggregates beyond a threshold concentration of the alcohol. In the present study, we have investigated the linear and two-dimensional infrared spectral features of aqueous solutions of TBA for varying concentration of the alcohol along the percolation transition. The percolation transition is characterized through calculations of intermolecular radial distribution functions and average size of the largest cluster of TBA molecules. It is found that, with variation of alcohol concentration, the radial distribution functions of the central carbon atoms of TBA molecules show a nonmonotonic change in the height of the first peak and also the size of the largest cluster of TBA molecules show a jump in the increase of its size for TBA mole fraction between 0.04 and 0.06 corresponding to a transition from smaller clusters to larger spanning aggregates. However, it is found that the linear infrared spectrum of water does not exhibit any noticeable changes on variation of TBA concentration along the percolation transition. Subsequently, two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectra and vibrational frequency time correlation function of water are calculated for all the TBA-water solutions considered in this study. The spectral diffusion of water calculated from 2DIR is found to slow down with increase of the TBA concentration. The time scales of spectral diffusion of water, as characterized by the relaxation of frequency time correlation function, 2DIR metric of central line slope, and also the hydrogen bond time correlation functions, are found to exhibit a noticeable jump along the percolation transition. The hydrophilic group of TBA is found to retard the water dynamics more effectively than the hydrophobic groups. Also, the jump in the dynamical slowdown along the percolation transition is found to be more significant for water molecules at the hydrophilic sites.
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- Ravi Malik
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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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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MAREKHA B, Hunger J. A single methyl group drastically changes urea's hydration dynamics. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:164504. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0085461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The amphiphilicity and denaturation efficiency of urea can be tuned via alkylation. Although the interaction of alkylureas with water and proteins has been studied in detail, the hydration of 1-methylurea has remained elusive, precluding the isolation of the effect of an individual methyl group. Here, we study water dynamics in the hydration shell of 1-methylurea (1-MU) using infrared absorption and ultrafast infrared spectroscopies. We find that 1-MU hardly affects the hydrogen-bond distribution of water as probed by the OD stretching vibration of HOD molecules. Polarization resolved infrared pump-probe experiments reveal that 1-MU slows down the rotational dynamics of up to 3 water molecules in its hydration shell. Comparison to earlier results for other alkylureas suggests that further alkylation does not necessarily slow down the rotational dynamics of additional water molecules. Two-dimensional infrared experiments show that 1-MU markedly slows down the hydrogen-bond fluctuation dynamics of water, yet similar to what has been found for urea and dimethylureas. Remarkably, (alkyl-) ureas that share a similar effect on water's hydrogen-bond fluctuation dynamics share a similar (modest) protein denaturation tendency. As such, not only the hydrophobicity but also hydration of hydrophilic fragments of alkylureas may be relevant to explain their function towards biomolecules.
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- Bogdan MAREKHA
- Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, Germany
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- Molecular Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
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Saw EN, Kanokkanchana K, Amin HMA, Tschulik K. Unravelling Anion Solvation in Water‐Alcohol Mixtures by Single Entity Electrochemistry. ChemElectroChem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.202101435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- En Ning Saw
- Chair of Analytical Chemistry II Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ruhr University Bochum Bochum 44801 Germany
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- Chair of Analytical Chemistry II Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ruhr University Bochum Bochum 44801 Germany
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- Chair of Analytical Chemistry II Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ruhr University Bochum Bochum 44801 Germany
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- Chair of Analytical Chemistry II Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ruhr University Bochum Bochum 44801 Germany
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Das B, Chandra A. Effects of Stearyl Alcohol Monolayer on the Structure, Dynamics and Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Interfacial Water. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:7374-7386. [DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04944e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The structure, dynamics and vibrational spectroscopy of water surface covered by a monolayer of stearyl alcohol (STA) are investigated by means of molecular dynamics simulations and vibrational sum frequency generation...
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Friesen S, Fedotova MV, Kruchinin SE, Bešter-Rogač M, Podlipnik Č, Buchner R. Hydration and counterion binding of aqueous acetylcholine chloride and carbamoylcholine chloride. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:25086-25096. [PMID: 34747952 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03543f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The hydration and Cl- ion binding of the neurot†ransmitter acetylcholine (ACh+) and its synthetic analogue, carbamoylcholine (CCh+), were studied by combining dilute-solution conductivity measurements with dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and statistical mechanics calculations at 1D-RISM and 3D-RISM level. Chloride ion binding was found to be weak but not negligible. From the ∼30 water molecules coordinating ACh and CCh+ only ∼1/3 is affected in its rotational dynamics by the cation, with the majority - situated close to the hydrophobic moieties - only retarded by a factor of ∼2.5. At vanishing solute concentration cations and the ∼3-4 H2O molecules hydrogen bonding to the CO group of the solute exhibit similar rotational dynamics but increasing concentration and temperature markedly dehydrates ACh+ and CCh+.
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- Sergej Friesen
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany.
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- G. A. Krestov Institute of Solution Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kademicheskaya st. 1, 153045 Ivanovo, Russian Federation.
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- G. A. Krestov Institute of Solution Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kademicheskaya st. 1, 153045 Ivanovo, Russian Federation.
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany.
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Alent’ev AY, Volkov AV, Vorotyntsev IV, Maksimov AL, Yaroslavtsev AB. Membrane Technologies for Decarbonization. MEMBRANES AND MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGIES 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s2517751621050024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Biswas S, Mallik BS. Negligible Effect on the Structure and Vibrational Spectral Dynamics of Water Molecules Near Hydrophobic Solutes. ChemistrySelect 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202002449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Sohag Biswas
- Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Kandi 502285 Sangareddy, Telangana India
- Present address: University of California Riverside CA 92521 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Kandi 502285 Sangareddy, Telangana India
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Deng GH, Shen Y, Chen H, Chen Y, Jiang B, Wu G, Yang X, Yuan K, Zheng J. Ordered-to-Disordered Transformation of Enhanced Water Structure on Hydrophobic Surfaces in Concentrated Alcohol-Water Solutions. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:7922-7928. [PMID: 31794227 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The effects of hydrophobic solutes on the structure of the surrounding water have been a topic of debate for almost 70 years. However, a consistent description of the physical insight into the causes of the anomalous thermodynamic properties of alcohol-water mixtures is lacking. Here we report experimental results that combined temperature-dependent linear and femtosecond infrared spectroscopy measurements to explore the water structural transformation in concentrated alcohol-water solutions. Experiments show that the enhancement of water structure arises around microhydrophobic interfaces at room temperature in the solutions. As temperature increases, this ordered water structure disappears and a surface topography-dependent new disordered water structure arises at concentrated solutions of large alcohols. The water structural transformation is dependent on not only the length of the alkyl chain but also the clustering of the alcohols. A more-ordered-than-water structure can transform into a less-ordered-than-water structure.
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- Gang-Hua Deng
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics , Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road , Dalian 116023 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics , Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road , Dalian 116023 , China
- School of Physical Science and Technology , ShanghaiTech University , Shanghai 201210 , China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics , Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics , Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road , Dalian 116023 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics , Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road , Dalian 116023 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics , Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road , Dalian 116023 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics , Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road , Dalian 116023 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics , Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road , Dalian 116023 , China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , China
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Marekha BA, Hunger J. Hydrophobic pattern of alkylated ureas markedly affects water rotation and hydrogen bond dynamics in aqueous solution. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:20672-20677. [PMID: 31508638 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04108g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Alkylated ureas are frequently used amphiphiles to mediate biomolecule water interactions, yet their hydrophobic substitution pattern critically affects their function. These differences can be traced back to their hydration, which is poorly understood. Here, we investigate subtle effects of the hydrophobic pattern of ureas on hydration dynamics using a combination of linear and non-linear infrared spectroscopies on the OD stretching vibration of HDO. Isomeric 1,3-dimethylurea (1,3-DMU), 1,1-dimethylurea (1,1-DMU) and 1-ethylurea (1-EU) exhibit very similar and rather weak modulation of the water hydrogen-bond strength distribution. Yet, only 1,3-DMU and 1,1-DMU enhance the hydrogen-bond heterogeneity and slow-down its fluctuation dynamics. In turn, rotational dynamics of water molecules, which is dominated by hydrogen bond switches, is significantly impeded in the presence of 1,3-DMU and only weakly by 1,1-DMU and 1-EU. These marked differences can be explained by both excluded volume effects in hydration and self-aggregation, which may be the key to their biotechnological function.
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- Bogdan A Marekha
- Molecular Spectroscopy Department, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Department, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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Zhang J, Wu X, Liu L, Huang C, Chen X, Tian Z, Ouyang C, Gu J, Zhang X, He M, Han J, Luo X, Zhang W. Ultra-broadband microwave metamaterial absorber with tetramethylurea inclusion. OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 27:25595-25602. [PMID: 31510429 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.025595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The absorption region of a water-based absorber was expanded by introducing tetramethylurea (TMU) into the inclusion, whose dielectric properties are tunable through the concentration of TMU. The dielectric spectroscopy of a TMU/water mixture was deconstructed using a Debye model. We designed a four-layer ultra-broadband microwave absorber with a supernatant micro-structure. Simulation and experiment results indicate that the absorber can achieve 90% perfect absorption, covering a broad frequency range of 4-40 GHz. The concentration dependence of the absorber was also studied experimentally and numerically. The concentration control provides a more practical and large frequency-region modulation of perfect absorption.
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Ensing B, Tiwari A, Tros M, Hunger J, Domingos SR, Pérez C, Smits G, Bonn M, Bonn D, Woutersen S. On the origin of the extremely different solubilities of polyethers in water. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2893. [PMID: 31253797 PMCID: PMC6599002 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10783-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2017] [Accepted: 05/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The solubilities of polyethers are surprisingly counter-intuitive. The best-known example is the difference between polyethylene glycol ([-CH2-CH2-O-]n) which is infinitely soluble, and polyoxymethylene ([-CH2-O-]n) which is completely insoluble in water, exactly the opposite of what one expects from the C/O ratios of these molecules. Similar anomalies exist for oligomeric and cyclic polyethers. To solve this apparent mystery, we use femtosecond vibrational and GHz dielectric spectroscopy with complementary ab initio calculations and molecular dynamics simulations. We find that the dynamics of water molecules solvating polyethers is fundamentally different depending on their C/O composition. The ab initio calculations and simulations show that this is not because of steric effects (as is commonly believed), but because the partial charge on the O atoms depends on the number of C atoms by which they are separated. Our results thus show that inductive effects can have a major impact on aqueous solubilities.
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- Bernd Ensing
- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Department of Molecular spectroscopy, Ackermannweg 10, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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- Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Department of Molecular spectroscopy, Ackermannweg 10, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
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- Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Zhang J, Liu L, Chen Y, Wang B, Ouyang C, Tian Z, Gu J, Zhang X, He M, Han J, Zhang W. Water Dynamics in the Hydration Shell of Amphiphilic Macromolecules. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:2971-2977. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b02040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jiaqi Zhang
- Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, 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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- Tianjin Engineering Technology Center of Chemical Wastewater Source Reduction and Recycling, School of Science, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin 300384, P. R. China
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- Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, United States
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Ding B, Yang L, Mukherjee D, Chen J, Gao Y, Gai F. Microscopic Insight into the Protein Denaturation Action of Urea and Its Methyl Derivatives. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:2933-2940. [PMID: 29767523 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We employ site-specific, linear and nonlinear infrared spectroscopic techniques as well as fluorescence spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the binding interactions of urea and three of its derivatives, methylurea, 1,3-dimethylurea, and tetramethylurea, with protein aromatic and polar side chains. We find that (1) urea methylation leads to preferential interactions between the cosolvent molecules and aromatic side chains with an affinity that increases with the number of methyl groups; (2) interactions with tetramethylurea cause significant dehydration of aromatic side chains and the effect is most pronounced for tryptophan; and (3) while neither urea nor tetramethylurea shows preferential accumulation around a polar side chain, the number of hydrogen-bond donors around this side chain is significantly decreased in the presence of tetramethylurea. Taken together, our findings suggest that these urea derivatives, especially tetramethylurea, can effectively disrupt hydrophobic interactions in proteins. Additionally, tetramethylurea can promote intramolecular hydrogen-bond formation and hence induce α-helix folding in peptides, as observed.
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , China
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Stirnemann G, Duboué-Dijon E, Laage D. Ab Initio Simulations of Water Dynamics in Aqueous TMAO Solutions: Temperature and Concentration Effects. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:11189-11197. [PMID: 29200289 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b09989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We use ab initio molecular dynamics simulation to study the effect of hydrophobic groups on the dynamics of water molecules in aqueous solutions of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). We show that hydrophobic groups induce a moderate (<2-fold) slowdown of water reorientation and hydrogen-bond dynamics in dilute solutions, but that this slowdown rapidly increases with solute concentration. In addition, the slowdown factor is found to vary very little with temperature, thus suggesting an entropic origin. All of these results are in quantitative agreement with prior classical molecular dynamics simulations and with the previously suggested excluded-volume model. The hydrophilic TMAO headgroup is found to affect water dynamics more strongly than the hydrophobic moiety, and the magnitude of this slowdown is very sensitive to the strength of the water-solute hydrogen-bond.
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- Guillaume Stirnemann
- CNRS Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, PSL Research University , 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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- PASTEUR, Département de Chimie, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS , 75005 Paris, France
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- PASTEUR, Département de Chimie, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS , 75005 Paris, France
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Verma PK, Kundu A, Puretz MS, Dhoonmoon C, Chegwidden OS, Londergan CH, Cho M. The Bend+Libration Combination Band Is an Intrinsic, Collective, and Strongly Solute-Dependent Reporter on the Hydrogen Bonding Network of Liquid Water. J Phys Chem B 2017; 122:2587-2599. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b09641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Pramod Kumar Verma
- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), 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), Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, United States
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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Picosecond orientational dynamics of water in living cells. Nat Commun 2017; 8:904. [PMID: 29026086 PMCID: PMC5714959 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00858-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cells are extremely crowded, and a central question in biology is how this affects the intracellular water. Here, we use ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy and dielectric-relaxation spectroscopy to observe the random orientational motion of water molecules inside living cells of three prototypical organisms: Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast), and spores of Bacillus subtilis. In all three organisms, most of the intracellular water exhibits the same random orientational motion as neat water (characteristic time constants ~9 and ~2 ps for the first-order and second-order orientational correlation functions), whereas a smaller fraction exhibits slower orientational dynamics. The fraction of slow intracellular water varies between organisms, ranging from ~20% in E. coli to ~45% in B. subtilis spores. Comparison with the water dynamics observed in solutions mimicking the chemical composition of (parts of) the cytosol shows that the slow water is bound mostly to proteins, and to a lesser extent to other biomolecules and ions. The cytoplasm’s crowdedness leads one to expect that cell water is different from bulk water. By measuring the rotational motion of water molecules in living cells, Tros et al. find that apart from a small fraction of water solvating biomolecules, cell water has the same dynamics as bulk water.
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Kundu A, Verma PK, Cho M. Role of Solvent Water in the Temperature-Induced Self-Assembly of a Triblock Copolymer. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:3040-3047. [PMID: 28613892 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Water-soluble triblock copolymers have received much attention in industrial applications and scientific fields. We here show that femtosecond mid-IR pump-probe spectroscopy is useful to study the role of water in the temperature-induced self-assembly of triblock copolymers. Our experimental results suggest two distinct subpopulations of water molecules: those that interact with other water molecules and those involved in the hydration of a triblock copolymer surface. We find that the vibrational dynamics of bulk-like water is not affected by either micellation or gelation of triblock copolymers. The increased population of water interacting with ether oxygen atoms of the copolymer during the unimer to micelle phase transition is important evidence for the entropic role of water in temperature-induced micelle formation at a low copolymer concentration. In contrast, at the critical gelation temperature and beyond, the population of surface-associated water molecules interacting with ether oxygen atoms decreases, which indicates important enthalpic control by water. The present study on the roles of water in the two different phase transitions of triblock copolymers sheds new light on the underlying mechanisms of temperature-induced self-aggregation behaviors of amphiphiles that are ubiquitous in nature.
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- Achintya Kundu
- 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
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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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Yamamori Y, Matubayasi N. Interaction-component analysis of the effects of urea and its alkylated derivatives on the structure of T4-lysozyme. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:225103. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4985222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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- Yu Yamamori
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
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Agieienko V, Horinek D, Buchner R. Hydration and self-aggregation of a neutral cosolute from dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and MD simulations: the case of 1,3-dimethylurea. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:219-230. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp07407c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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1,3-Dimethylurea irrotationally binds 1–2H2O molecules close to its carbonyl and impedes dynamics of ca. 40 H2O molecules by methyl substituents.
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- Vira Agieienko
- Department of Physical Chemistry
- Kazan Federal University
- 420008 Kazan
- Russia
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie
- Universität Regensburg
- D-93040 Regensburg
- Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie
- Universität Regensburg
- D-93040 Regensburg
- Germany
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INDRA SANDIPA, BISWAS RANJIT. Is dynamic heterogeneity of water in presence of a protein denaturing agent different from that in presence of a protein stabilizer? A molecular dynamics simulation study. J CHEM SCI 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-016-1194-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Giammanco CH, Kramer PL, Wong DB, Fayer MD. Water Dynamics in 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Tetrafluoroborate Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:11523-11538. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b08410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Chiara H. Giammanco
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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INDRA SANDIPA, BISWAS RANJIT. Are N-methyl groups of Tetramethylurea (TMU) Hydrophobic? A composition and temperature-dependent fluorescence spectroscopic investigation of TMU/water binary mixtures. J CHEM SCI 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-016-1072-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Chettiyankandy P, Chowdhuri S. Solvation structure and dynamics of ions in concentrated urea solution. J Mol Liq 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2016.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Okuda M, Ohta K, Tominaga K. Vibrational dynamics of azide-derivatized amino acids studied by nonlinear infrared spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:212418. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4917032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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- Masaki Okuda
- Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Rokkodai-cho 1-1, Nada. Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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- Moleuclar Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University, Rokkodai-cho 1-1, Nada. Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Rokkodai-cho 1-1, Nada. Kobe 657-8501, Japan
- Moleuclar Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University, Rokkodai-cho 1-1, Nada. Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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Homsi Brandeburgo W, van der Post ST, Meijer EJ, Ensing B. On the slowdown mechanism of water dynamics around small amphiphiles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:24968-77. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03486h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Partitioning the water molecules depending on their location with respect to the solute makes it possible to probe the cause of the orientational slowdown in aqueous tetramethylurea.
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- Wagner Homsi Brandeburgo
- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- 1098 XH Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- 1098 XH Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- 1098 XH Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling
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Panman MR, Shaw DJ, Ensing B, Woutersen S. Local orientational order in liquids revealed by resonant vibrational energy transfer. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 113:207801. [PMID: 25432055 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.207801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We demonstrate that local orientational ordering in a liquid can be observed in the decay of the vibrational anisotropy caused by resonant transfer of vibrational excitations between its constituent molecules. We show that the functional form of this decay is determined by the (distribution of) angles between the vibrating bonds of the molecules between which energy transfer occurs, and that the initial drop in the decay reflects the average angle between nearest neighbors. We use this effect to observe the difference in local orientational ordering in the two hydrogen-bonded liquids ethanol and N-methylacetamide.
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- M R Panman
- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Samanta N, Das Mahanta D, Kumar Mitra R. Does Urea Alter the Collective Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics in Water? A Dielectric Relaxation Study in the Terahertz-Frequency Region. Chem Asian J 2014; 9:3457-63. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.201402696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2014] [Revised: 07/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Pattanayak SK, Chettiyankandy P, Chowdhuri S. Effects of co-solutes on the hydrogen bonding structure and dynamics in aqueous N-methylacetamide solution: a molecular dynamics simulations study. Mol Phys 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2014.916822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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van der Post ST, Bakker HJ. Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Study of the Reorientation of Weakly Hydrogen-Bonded Water Molecules. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:8179-89. [DOI: 10.1021/jp501240e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1091AG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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van der Post ST, Hunger J, Bonn M, Bakker HJ. Observation of Water Separated Ion-Pairs between Cations and Phospholipid Headgroups. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:4397-403. [DOI: 10.1021/jp411458z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- FOM Institute AMOLF, Science
Park 104, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Mazur K, Buchner R, Bonn M, Hunger J. Hydration of Sodium Alginate in Aqueous Solution. Macromolecules 2014. [DOI: 10.1021/ma4023873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Kamila Mazur
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Institut
für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Water Dynamics in Aqueous Solutions of Tetra-n-alkylammonium Salts: Hydrophobic and Coulomb Interactions Disentangled. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:15101-10. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4085734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Xie W, Liu C, Yang L, Gao Y. On the molecular mechanism of ion specific Hofmeister series. Sci China Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-013-5019-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Kuffel A, Zielkiewicz J. Properties of water in the region between a tubulin dimer and a single motor head of kinesin. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:4527-37. [PMID: 23420044 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp43828g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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A kinesin is a molecular motor that can perform movement on a microtubule track in a stepping-like manner. This motion is connected with processes of association and dissociation of kinesin and tubulin. Water is an important participant in these kinds of molecular interactions. This is why we have decided to investigate the dynamical and structural properties of water in the region between the kinesin catalytic domain and the tubulin dimer. Using the molecular dynamics method, we found that these properties are different from the ones of bulk water. The changes in structure and dynamics are visible for water beyond the first solvation layers, even for the longest analyzed distance between proteins equal to 2.0 nm. However, these changes are not always enhanced compared to the situation when only one protein surface is present. One factor that distinguishes the investigated situation from the one with a single protein is the presence of an additional electric field originating from the second protein. The tendency of vectors of dipole moments of water molecules between the proteins to follow the vectors of electric field generated by the proteins causes a distortion of the water-water hydrogen bond network. It has been shown that this distortion affects the properties of water in this region: it induces structural changes in solvation water, and leads to increased water density and increased stiffness of the water structure.
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- Anna Kuffel
- Department of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland
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Rahman HMA, Hefter G, Buchner R. Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Hydration of Sodium Propanoate and Sodium Butanoate in Aqueous Solution. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:2142-52. [DOI: 10.1021/jp310029c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Hafiz M. A. Rahman
- Institut für Physikalische
und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Chemistry Department, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia
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- Institut für Physikalische
und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
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Comez L, Lupi L, Paolantoni M, Picchiò F, Fioretto D. Hydration properties of small hydrophobic molecules by Brillouin light scattering. J Chem Phys 2013; 137:114509. [PMID: 22998273 DOI: 10.1063/1.4752732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We study the relaxation of water molecules next to hydrophobic solutes with different functional groups by Brillouin light scattering. Evidence is given for (i) water activation energy in trimethylamine-N-oxide, proline and t-butyl alcohol diluted solutions which is comparable to that of neat water, almost independent from solute mole fraction and (ii) moderate slowdown of relaxation time of proximal water compared to the bulk, which is consistent with excluded volume models. Assuming that the main contribution to viscosity comes from bulk and hydration water, a rationale is given of the phenomenological Arrhenius' laws for the viscosity of diluted aqueous solutions.
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- L Comez
- IOM-CNR, c/o Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia, I-06123, Perugia, Italy
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van der Post ST, Tielrooij KJ, Hunger J, Backus EHG, Bakker HJ. Femtosecond study of the effects of ions and hydrophobes on the dynamics of water. Faraday Discuss 2013; 160:171-89; discussion 207-24. [DOI: 10.1039/c2fd20097j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- Yi Qin Gao
- Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking National Laboratory
for Molecular Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, 100871
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Sagle LB, Cimatu K, Litosh VA, Liu Y, Flores SC, Chen X, Yu B, Cremer PS. Methyl groups of trimethylamine N-oxide orient away from hydrophobic interfaces. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:18707-12. [PMID: 21967088 DOI: 10.1021/ja205106e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The molecular orientation of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a powerful protein stabilizer, was explored at aqueous/hydrophobic interfaces using vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy (VSFS). The systems studied included the octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS)/water interface, which represents an aqueous solution in direct contact with a hydrophobic medium. Surprisingly, the measurements revealed that the methyl groups of TMAO pointed into the aqueous phase and away from the OTS. This orientation may arise from the more hydrophilic nature of methyl groups attached to a strongly electron-withdrawing atom such as a quaternary nitrogen. Additional studies were performed at the air/water interface. This interface showed a high degree of TMAO alignment, but the dangling OH from water was present even at 5 M TAMO. Moreover, the addition of this osmolyte modestly increased the surface tension of the interface. This meant that this species was somewhat depleted at the interface compared to the bulk solution. These findings may have implications for the stabilizing effect of TMAO on proteins. Specifically, the strong hydration required for the methyl groups as well as the oxide moiety should be responsible for the osmolyte's depletion from hydrophobic/aqueous interfaces. Such depletion effects should help stabilize proteins in their folded and native conformations on entropic grounds, although orientational effects may play an additional role.
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- Laura B Sagle
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, P.O. Box 30012, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Tielrooij KJ, van der Post ST, Hunger J, Bonn M, Bakker HJ. Anisotropic Water Reorientation around Ions. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:12638-47. [DOI: 10.1021/jp206320f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- K. J. Tielrooij
- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics [AMOLF], Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics [AMOLF], Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics [AMOLF], Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics [AMOLF], Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics [AMOLF], Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Śmiechowski M. Vibrational spectroscopic studies of N,N'-dimethylpropyleneurea-water system: affected solvent spectra and factor analysis. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2011; 79:712-721. [PMID: 20869300 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2010.08.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2009] [Revised: 02/08/2010] [Accepted: 08/26/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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FT-IR spectra of N,N'-dimethylpropyleneurea (DMPU)-water system have been measured in the 4000-500 cm(-1) range by Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) technique in the entire composition range. The hydration of DMPU in diluted aqueous solutions has been additionally studied with transmission FT-IR spectroscopy of isotopically diluted HDO in H(2)O, used as a probe of solute hydration. The spectra have been analysed with the quantitative version of the difference spectra method that leads to isolation of the spectrum of solvent affected by the presence of the solute. DMPU-affected HDO spectra provide information about the energetic state of water molecules in the hydration shell, while affected H(2)O spectra additionally reflect the structural state of the water hydrogen bond network. The CO stretching band of DMPU has been used to obtain also the H(2)O-affected DMPU spectrum. The affected H(2)O and DMPU spectra have been determined in infinite dilution approximation, as well as for increasing concentrations of the solute. These results are confronted with factor analysis of ATR spectra, which shows the presence of three well-defined intermolecular complexes in the studied system. Presumable structures of these complexes have been proposed on the basis of Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations of optimal cluster geometries.
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- Maciej Śmiechowski
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Faculty, Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland.
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Vila Verde A, Campen RK. Disaccharide Topology Induces Slowdown in Local Water Dynamics. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:7069-84. [DOI: 10.1021/jp112178c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ana Vila Verde
- FOM Institute AMOLF, 104 Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Centro de Física, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- FOM Institute AMOLF, 104 Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Petersen C, Bakulin AA, Pavelyev VG, Pshenichnikov MS, Bakker HJ. Femtosecond midinfrared study of aggregation behavior in aqueous solutions of amphiphilic molecules. J Chem Phys 2011; 133:164514. [PMID: 21033812 DOI: 10.1063/1.3493461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We study the spectral and orientational dynamics of HDO molecules in aqueous solutions of different concentrations of tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) and trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO). The spectral dynamics is investigated with femtosecond two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of the O-H stretch vibration of HDO:D(2)O, and the orientational dynamics is studied with femtosecond polarization-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy of the O-D stretch vibration of HDO:H(2)O. Both the spectral and orientational dynamics are observed to show bimodal behavior: part of the water molecules shows spectral and orientational dynamics similar to bulk liquid water and part of the water molecules displays a much slower dynamics. For low solute concentrations, the latter fraction of slow water increases linearly as a function of solute molality, indicating that the slow water is contained in the solvation shells of TBA and TMAO. At higher concentrations, the fraction of slow water saturates. The saturation behavior is much stronger for TBA solutions than for TMAO solutions, indicating the aggregation of the TBA molecules.
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- Christian Petersen
- FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Science Park 113, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Tielrooij KJ, Hunger J, Buchner R, Bonn M, Bakker HJ. Influence of concentration and temperature on the dynamics of water in the hydrophobic hydration shell of tetramethylurea. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 132:15671-8. [PMID: 20949942 DOI: 10.1021/ja106273w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We study the influence of the amphipilic compound tetramethylurea (TMU) on the dynamical properties of water, using dielectric relaxation spectroscopy in the regime between 0.2 GHz and 2 THz. This technique is capable of resolving different water species, their relative fractions, and their corresponding reorientation dynamics. We find that the reorientation dynamics of water molecules in the hydration shell of the hydrophobic groups of TMU is between 3 (at low concentrations) and 10 (at higher concentrations) times slower than the dynamics of bulk water. The data indicate that the effect of hydrophobic groups on water is strong but relatively short-ranged. With increasing temperature, the fraction of water contained in the hydrophobic hydration shell decreases, which implies that the overall effect of hydrophobic groups on water becomes smaller.
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Mazur K, Heisler IA, Meech SR. THz Spectra and Dynamics of Aqueous Solutions Studied by the Ultrafast Optical Kerr Effect. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:2563-73. [DOI: 10.1021/jp111764p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Kamila Mazur
- School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K
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Bakulin AA, Pshenichnikov MS, Bakker HJ, Petersen C. Hydrophobic Molecules Slow Down the Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics of Water. J Phys Chem A 2011; 115:1821-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jp107881j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Artem A. Bakulin
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The implications of gene heterozygosity for protein folding and protein turnover. J Theor Biol 2010; 265:554-64. [PMID: 20493885 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2009] [Revised: 04/11/2010] [Accepted: 05/17/2010] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The offspring of closely related parents often suffer from inbreeding depression, sometimes resulting in a slower growth rate for inbred offspring relative to non-inbred offspring. Previous research has shown that some of the slower growth rate of inbred organisms can be attributed to the inbred organisms' increased levels of protein turnover. This paper attempts to show that the higher levels of protein turnover among inbred organisms can be attributed to accumulations of misfolded and aggregated proteins that require degradation by the inbred organisms' protein quality control systems. The accumulation of misfolded and aggregated proteins within inbred organisms are the result of more negative free energies of folding for proteins encoded at homozygous gene loci and higher concentrations of potentially aggregating non-native protein species within the cell. The theory presented here makes several quantitative predictions that suggest a connection between protein misfolding/aggregation and polyploidy that can be tested by future research.
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Zavitsas A. The Nature of Aqueous Solutions: Insights into Multiple Facets of Chemistry and Biochemistry from Freezing-Point Depressions. Chemistry 2010; 16:5942-60. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.200903063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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