Hydration Structures of Proteins - Masayoshi Nakasako

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2021 | 1st ed. 2021
XVIII, 309 Seiten
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This book describes hydration structures of proteins by combining experimental results with theoretical considerations. It is designed to introduce graduate students and researchers to microscopic views of the interactions between water and biological macromolecules and to provide them with an overview of the field. Topics on protein hydration from the past 25 years are examined, most of which involve crystallography, fluorescence measurements, and molecular dynamics simulations.

In X-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations, recent advances have accelerated the study of hydration structures over the entire surface of proteins. Experimentally, crystal structure analysis at cryogenic temperatures is advantageous in terms of visualizing the positions of hydration water molecules on the surfaces of proteins in their frozen-hydrated crystals. A set of massive data regarding hydration sites on protein surfaces provides an appropriate basis, enabling us to identify statistically significant trends in geometrical characteristics. Trajectories obtained from molecular dynamics simulations illustrate the motion of water molecules in the vicinity of protein surfaces at sufficiently high spatial and temporal resolution to study the influences of hydration on protein motion. Together with the results and implications of these studies, the physical principles of the measurement and simulation of protein hydration are briefly summarized at an undergraduate level.

Further, the author presents recent results from statistical approaches to characterizing hydrogen-bond geometry in local hydration structures of proteins. The book equips readers to better understand the structures and modes of interaction at the interface between water and proteins. Referred to as 'hydration structures', they are the subject of much discussion, as they may help to answer the question of why water is indispensable for life at the molecular and atomic level.



Masayoshi Nakasako is a professor at Keio University, and his work involves structural analysis of soft matter. He received his Doctor of Science from Tohoku University in 1990. After his doctoral program, he was a research associate at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo; a researcher at RIKEN; a lecturer at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo; and an assistant professor at Keio University in 2002. In 2005, he was promoted to his present position. Currently, he also serves Spring-8 Center, RIKEN, as a guest researcher.

His research interest is in imaging of protein hydration, protein structures, and cells by various physicochemical experimental techniques including X-ray imaging using synchrotron radiation and X-ray free electron laser and molecular dynamics simulations.


This book describes hydration structures of proteins by combining experimental results with theoretical considerations. It is designed to introduce graduate students and researchers to microscopic views of the interactions between water and biological macromolecules and to provide them with an overview of the field. Topics on protein hydration from the past 25 years are examined, most of which involve crystallography, fluorescence measurements, and molecular dynamics simulations.In X-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations, recent advances have accelerated the study of hydration structures over the entire surface of proteins. Experimentally, crystal structure analysis at cryogenic temperatures is advantageous in terms of visualizing the positions of hydration water molecules on the surfaces of proteins in their frozen-hydrated crystals. A set of massive data regarding hydration sites on protein surfaces provides an appropriate basis, enabling us to identify statistically significant trends in geometrical characteristics. Trajectories obtained from molecular dynamics simulations illustrate the motion of water molecules in the vicinity of protein surfaces at sufficiently high spatial and temporal resolution to study the influences of hydration on protein motion. Together with the results and implications of these studies, the physical principles of the measurement and simulation of protein hydration are briefly summarized at an undergraduate level.Further, the author presents recent results from statistical approaches to characterizing hydrogen-bond geometry in local hydration structures of proteins. The book equips readers to better understand the structures and modes of interaction at the interface between water and proteins. Referred to as hydration structures , they are the subject of much discussion, as they may help to answer the question of why water is indispensable for life at the molecular and atomic level.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.10.2021
Reihe/Serie Soft and Biological Matter
Soft and Biological Matter
Zusatzinfo XVIII, 309 p. 143 illus., 139 illus. in color.
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Biochemie
Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Angewandte Physik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Festkörperphysik
Technik Maschinenbau
Schlagworte Cryogenic X-ray crystallography • Dynamics of protein hydration • Fluorescence measurement • Hydration structure of proteins • Molecular dynamics for hydration modeling • Protein hydration review • Tetrahedral hydrogen-bond geometry • Three-dimensional networks of hydrogen bonds
ISBN-10 4-431-56919-7 / 4431569197
ISBN-13 978-4-431-56919-0 / 9784431569190
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