DOI: 10.1051/jp1:1992192
J. Phys. I France 2 (1992) 995-1001
Dynamics of hydration water in protein
M.-C. Bellissent-Funel1, J. Teixeira1, K.F. Bradley2 and S. H. Chen21 Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (CEA-CNRS), CEN-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
2 Nuclear Engineering Department, M.I.T. Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
(Received 31 December 1991, accepted in final form 10 February 1992)
Abstract
Incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering studies of in vivo deuterated C-phycocyanin, at different levels of hydration, have been made. We show that the mobility at high temperature,
(
K) of the water molecules near the protein surface can be described by relatively simple models. At full hydration the high
temperature data can be interpreted using a model where each water molecule is diffusing in a confined space of 3 Å in radius.
At low hydration, and 298 K, the diffusional behaviour is typical of jump diffusion with a residence time 10 times larger
than the one in bulk water at the same temperature.
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