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标题：Dynamics and mechanism of ultrafast water–protein interactions
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作者：Yangzhong Qin ; Lijuan Wang ; Dongping Zhong 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2016
卷号：113
期号：30
页码：8424-8429
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1602916113
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Protein hydration is essential to its structure, dynamics, and function, but water–protein interactions have not been directly observed in real time at physiological temperature to our awareness. By using a tryptophan scan with femtosecond spectroscopy, we simultaneously measured the hydration water dynamics and protein side-chain motions with temperature dependence. We observed the heterogeneous hydration dynamics around the global protein surface with two types of coupled motions, collective water/side-chain reorientation in a few picoseconds and cooperative water/side-chain restructuring in tens of picoseconds. The ultrafast dynamics in hundreds of femtoseconds is from the outer-layer, bulk-type mobile water molecules in the hydration shell. We also found that the hydration water dynamics are always faster than protein side-chain relaxations but with the same energy barriers, indicating hydration shell fluctuations driving protein side-chain motions on the picosecond time scales and thus elucidating their ultimate relationship.
关键词：hydration shell dynamics ; protein side-chain motion ; water-driven relaxation ; coupled fluctuation ; tryptophan scan