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Anomalous sub-diffusion of water in biosystems: From hydrated protein powders to concentrated protein solution to living cells.

ABSTRACT: Water is essential to life and its translational motion in living systems mediates various biological processes, including transportation of function-required ingredients and facilitating the interaction between biomacromolecules. By combining neutron scattering and isotopic labeling, the present work characterizes translational motion of water on a biomolecular surface, in a range of systems: a hydrated protein powder, a concentrated protein solution, and in living Escherichia coli (E. coli) cells. Anomalous sub-diffusion of water is observed in all samples, which is alleviated upon increasing the water content. Complementary molecular dynamics simulations and coarse-grained numerical modeling demonstrated that the sub-diffusive behavior results from the heterogeneous distribution of microscopic translational mobility of interfacial water. Moreover, by comparing the experimental results measured on E. coli cells with those from a concentrated protein solution with the same amount of water, we show that water in the two samples has a similar average mobility, however the underlying distribution of motion is more heterogeneous in the living cell.

SUBMITTER: Li R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7556885 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Anomalous sub-diffusion of water in biosystems: From hydrated protein powders to concentrated protein solution to living cells.

Li Rui R Liu Zhuo Z Li Like L Huang Juan J Yamada Takeshi T Sakai Victoria García VG Tan Pan P Hong Liang L

Structural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.) 20200901 5

Water is essential to life and its translational motion in living systems mediates various biological processes, including transportation of function-required ingredients and facilitating the interaction between biomacromolecules. By combining neutron scattering and isotopic labeling, the present work characterizes translational motion of water on a biomolecular surface, in a range of systems: a hydrated protein powder, a concentrated protein solution, and in living <i>Escherichia coli</i> (<i>E ...[more]

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Anomalous sub-diffusion of water in biosystems: From hydrated protein powders to concentrated protein solution to living cells.

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Anomalous sub-diffusion of water in biosystems: From hydrated protein powders to concentrated protein solution to living cells.

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