Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms222111969
Keywords
THz-TDS; hydration shells; carbohydrate hydration; water structure; dielectric properties; polysaccharides
Funding
- State assignment of PSCBR RAS [121072900075-6]
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This research focuses on the dynamic hydration characteristics of carbohydrates in aqueous solutions using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy analysis. It reveals that all analyzed carbohydrates increase the binding degree of water, with monosaccharides showing higher numbers of hydrogen bonds and free water molecules but polysaccharides exhibiting less apparent hydration depending on the type of glycosidic bonds.
Despite more than a century of research on the hydration of biomolecules, the hydration of carbohydrates is insufficiently studied. An approach to studying dynamic hydration shells of carbohydrates in aqueous solutions based on terahertz time-domain spectroscopy assay is developed in the current work. Monosaccharides (glucose, galactose, galacturonic acid) and polysaccharides (dextran, amylopectin, polygalacturonic acid) solutions were studied. The contribution of the dissolved carbohydrates was subtracted from the measured dielectric permittivities of aqueous solutions based on the corresponding effective medium models. The obtained dielectric permittivities of the water phase were used to calculate the parameters describing intermolecular relaxation and oscillatory processes in water. It is established that all of the analyzed carbohydrates lead to the increase of the binding degree of water. Hydration shells of monosaccharides are characterized by elevated numbers of hydrogen bonds and their mean energies compared to undisturbed water, as well as by elevated numbers and the lifetime of free water molecules. The axial orientation of the OH(4) group of sugar facilitates a wider distribution of hydrogen bond energies in hydration shells compared to equatorial orientation. The presence of the carboxylic group affects water structure significantly. The hydration of polysaccharides is less apparent than that of monosaccharides, and it depends on the type of glycosidic bonds.
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