期刊
JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS
卷 357, 期 2, 页码 695-699出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2010.05.092
关键词
Bioprotection; Carbohydrates; Water structural relaxation; Hydrogen bonds
资金
- INTERREG III (FEDER)
- ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
- Nord-Pas de Calais region
The dynamics of water in aqueous solutions of three homologous disaccharides, namely trehalose, maltose and sucrose, has been analyzed by means of molecular dynamics simulations in the 0-66 wt.% concentration range. The low-frequency vibrational densities of states (VDOS) of water were compared with the susceptibilities chi '' of 0-40 wt.% solutions of trehalose in D2O obtained from complementary Raman scattering experiments. Both reveal that sugars significantly stiffen the local environments experienced by water. Accordingly, its translational diffusion coefficient decreases when the sugar concentration increases, as a result of an increase of water-water hydrogen bond lifetimes and of the corresponding activation energies. This induced slowing down of water dynamics, ascribed to the numerous hydrogen bonds that sugars form with water, is strongly amplified at concentrations above 40 wt.% by the percolation of the hydrogen bond network of sugars, and may partially explain their well-known stabilizing effect on proteins in aqueous solutions. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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