Search Results - "Heyden, Matthias"
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Heterogeneity of water structure and dynamics at the protein-water interface
Published in The Journal of chemical physics (07-03-2019)“…In this molecular dynamics simulation study, we analyze the local structural and dynamic properties of water hydrating the protein ubiquitin on a spatial grid…”
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Resolving anisotropic distributions of correlated vibrational motion in protein hydration water
Published in The Journal of chemical physics (14-12-2014)“…In this study, we analyze correlations of vibrational motion on the surface of a small globular protein and in its hydration shell. In contrast to single…”
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Excluded-Volume Effects in Living Cells
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (16-02-2015)“…Biomolecules evolve and function in densely crowded and highly heterogeneous cellular environments. Such conditions are often mimicked in the test tube by the…”
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Combining THz spectroscopy and MD simulations to study protein-hydration coupling
Published in Methods (San Diego, Calif.) (01-09-2010)“…THz spectroscopy is combined with MD simulations to study the dynamical properties of water in the solvation shell of proteins. The solvation dynamics is found…”
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Distinct Protein Hydration Water Species Defined by Spatially Resolved Spectra of Intermolecular Vibrations
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (10-08-2017)“…In this molecular dynamics simulation study, we analyze intermolecular vibrations in the hydration shell of a solvated enyzme, the membrane type 1–matrix…”
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Pressure effects on collective density fluctuations in water and protein solutions
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-10-2017)“…Neutron Brillouin scattering and molecular dynamics simulations have been used to investigate protein hydration water density fluctuations as a function of…”
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Stability Effect of Quinary Interactions Reversed by Single Point Mutations
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (20-03-2019)“…In cells, proteins are embedded in a crowded environment that controls their properties via manifold avenues including weak protein–macromolecule interactions…”
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Dissecting the THz spectrum of liquid water from first principles via correlations in time and space
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-07-2010)“…Solvation of molecules in water is at the heart of a myriad of molecular phenomena and of crucial importance to understanding such diverse issues as chemical…”
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Spatially Heterogeneous Surface Water Diffusivity around Structured Protein Surfaces at Equilibrium
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (13-12-2017)“…Hydration water on the surface of a protein is thought to mediate the thermodynamics of protein–ligand interactions. For hydration water to play a role beyond…”
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Correlated structural kinetics and retarded solvent dynamics at the metalloprotease active site
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (18-09-2011)“…Solvent dynamics are an often overlooked component in enzymatic activity. Terahertz spectroscopy, X-ray absorption analysis and molecular dynamics simulations…”
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Signatures of Solvation Thermodynamics in Spectra of Intermolecular Vibrations
Published in Journal of chemical theory and computation (12-09-2017)“…This study explores the thermodynamic and vibrational properties of water in the three-dimensional environment of solvated ions and small molecules using…”
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Watching the Low-Frequency Motions in Aqueous Salt Solutions: The Terahertz Vibrational Signatures of Hydrated Ions
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (18-01-2012)“…The details of ion hydration still raise fundamental questions relevant to a large variety of problems in chemistry and biology. The concept of water…”
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extended dynamical hydration shell around proteins
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-12-2007)“…The focus in protein folding has been very much on the protein backbone and sidechains. However, hydration waters make comparable contributions to the…”
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Hydration Dynamics of a Peripheral Membrane Protein
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (14-09-2016)“…Water dynamics in the hydration shell of the peripheral membrane protein annexin B12 were studied using MD simulations and Overhauser DNP-enhanced NMR. We show…”
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Terahertz absorption of dilute aqueous solutions
Published in The Journal of chemical physics (21-12-2012)“…Absorption of terahertz (THz) radiation by aqueous solutions of large solutes reports on the polarization response of their hydration shells. This is because…”
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Anomalous behavior of water inside the SecY translocon
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-07-2015)“…The heterotrimeric SecY translocon complex is required for the cotranslational assembly of membrane proteins in bacteria and archaea. The insertion of…”
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Allosteric mechanism of water-channel gating by Ca2+–calmodulin
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (01-09-2013)“…Calmodulin (CaM) regulates a variety of membrane channels in response to Ca2+, but the precise mechanisms are still unclear. Now a combination of…”
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Orientation of non-spherical protonated water clusters revealed by infrared absorption dichroism
Published in Nature communications (22-01-2018)“…Infrared continuum bands that extend over a broad frequency range are a key spectral signature of protonated water clusters. They are observed for many…”
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Exploring hydrophobicity by THz absorption spectroscopy of solvated amino acids
Published in Faraday discussions (2011)“…Although hydrophobicity is a commonly used concept, its microscopic nature, particularly in the context of hydration, is not well understood. Here, we present…”
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From single proteins to efficient simulation models of the cytoplasm
Published in Biophysical journal (10-02-2023)Get full text
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