Water Dynamics in the Hydration Shells of Biomolecules
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Université Paris Cité · +5 more institutions
Abstract
The structure and function of biomolecules are strongly influenced by their hydration shells. Structural fluctuations and molecular excitations of hydrating water molecules cover a broad range in space and time, from individual water molecules to larger pools and from femtosecond to microsecond time scales. Recent progress in theory and molecular dynamics simulations as well as in ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy has led to new and detailed insight into fluctuations of water structure, elementary water motions, electric fields at hydrated biointerfaces, and processes of vibrational relaxation and energy dissipation. Here, we review recent advances in both theory and experiment, focusing on hydrated DNA,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 52.88
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 299
Authors
3- DLDamien LaageCorresponding
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Cité, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, Sorbonne Université
- TEThomas Elsaesser
Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
- JTJames T. Hynes
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Colorado Boulder, Université Paris Cité, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, Sorbonne Université
Topics & keywords
- Biomolecule
- Chemistry
- Chemical physics
- Microsecond
- Femtosecond
- Molecular dynamics
- Molecule
- Relaxation (psychology)
- Clean water and sanitation