Decoupling effect between protein and water

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Water plays a critical role in life. A hydration level, h ~ 0.2 g water/g protein, is found to be the minimum for the dynamical transition in protein at Td ~ 200 K. This temperature is universal for proteins and ascribed to the surface hydration water. However, our OSIRIS neutron data on perdeuterated cytochrome P450 (CYP) and its hydrogenated counterpart showed that the Td of hydration water shifts significantly to higher values when decreasing the instrument resolution, while the Td for the protein remains essentially unchanged. OSIRIS afforded us two resolutions (25.4 and 99 ueV) which we added to data from HFBS at NIST at 1ueV resolution. These results suggests that the dynamical transition might have a different physical origin from that of its surface water. To further confirm these findings, we want to try a structurally and functionally different protein, GFP, at OSIRIS.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.95670743
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/95670743
Provenance
Creator Dr Victoria Garcia Sakai; Mr Zhuo Liu; Dr CHENXING YANG; Professor liang hong
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-07-02T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-07-06T08:00:00Z