Observation of ice-like water layers at an aqueous protein surface
Konrad Meister; Simona Strazdaitė; Arthur L. DeVries; Stephan Lotze; Luuk L. C. Olijve; Ilja K. Voets; Huib J. Bakker · 2014 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Abstract (excerpt)
We study the properties of water at the surface of an antifreeze protein with femtosecond surface sum frequency generation spectroscopy. We find clear evidence for the presence of ice-like water layers at the ice-binding site of the…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1073/pnas.1414188111