Mapping hydrophobicity at the nanoscale: Applications to heterogeneous surfaces and proteins
Faraday Discussions, ISSN: 1359-6640, Vol: 146, Page: 353-365
2010
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- Citations187
- Citation Indexes187
- 187
- CrossRef184
- Captures94
- Readers94
- 94
Article Description
Approaches to quantify wetting at the macroscale do not translate to the nanoscale, highlighting the need for new methods for characterizing hydrophobicity at the small scale. We use extensive molecular simulations to study the hydration of homo and heterogeneous self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and of protein surfaces. For homogeneous SAMs, new pressure-dependent analysis shows that water displays higher compressibility and enhanced density fluctuations near hydrophobic surfaces, which are gradually quenched with increasing hydrophilicity, consistent with our previous studies. Heterogeneous surfaces show an interesting context dependence - adding a single -OH group in a -CH terminated SAM has a more dramatic effect on water in the vicinity compared to that of a single -CH group in an -OH background. For mixed -CH/-OH SAMs, this asymmetry leads to a non-linear dependence of hydrophobicity on the surface concentration. We also present preliminary results to map hydrophobicity of protein surfaces by monitoring local density fluctuations and binding of probe hydrophobic solutes. These molecular measures account for the behavior of protein's hydration water, and present a more refined picture of its hydrophobicity map. At least for one protein, hydrophobin-II, we show that the hydrophobicity map is different from that suggested by a commonly used hydropathy scale. © 2010 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=77955179167&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b927019a; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21043432; https://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b927019a; https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b927019a; https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2010/fd/b927019a
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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