The self-assembly, aggregation and phase transitions of food protein systems in one, two and three dimensions

R Mezzenga, P Fischer - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The aggregation of proteins is of fundamental relevance in a number of daily phenomena,
as important and diverse as blood coagulation, medical diseases, or cooking an egg in the …

Homogeneous versus heterogeneous self-exchange electron transfer reactions of metal complexes: Insights from pressure effects

TW Swaddle - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
Although the kinetics and mechanisms of electron transfer reactions in homogeneous
solution have been intensively studied by the inorganic reaction mechanisms community …

Molecular origin of time-dependent fluorescence shifts in proteins

L Nilsson, B Halle - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy is used increasingly to probe molecular motions
at the aqueous interfaces of biological macromolecules and membranes. By recording the …

Nature of biological water: a femtosecond study

K Bhattacharyya - Chemical communications, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
The quasi-bound biological or structuredwater molecules in a protein play a key role in
many biological processes. The dynamics of the biological water has been studied by …

Secondary structure sensitivity of hydrogen bond lifetime dynamics in the protein hydration layer

S Bandyopadhyay, S Chakraborty… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The heterogeneous nature of a protein surface plays an essential role in its biological
activity and molecular recognition, and this role is mediated at least partly through the …

Does the dynamic Stokes shift report on slow protein hydration dynamics?

B Halle, L Nilsson - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2009 - ACS Publications
The time-dependent fluorescence frequency shift of protein-attached probes has a much
slower decay than that for the free probe. The decay times, ranging from 10 ps to several …

Associated water dynamics might be a key factor affecting protein stability in the crowded milieu

N Das, E Tarif, A Dutta, P Sen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over the past 20 years, the most studied and debated aspect of macromolecular crowding is
how it affects protein stability. Traditionally, it is explained by a delicate balance between the …

Osmolyte induced protein stabilization: modulation of associated water dynamics might be a key factor

KS Negi, N Das, T Khan, P Sen - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The mechanism of protein stabilization by osmolytes remains one of the most important and
long-standing puzzles. The traditional explanation of osmolyte-induced stability through the …

Fluorescence anisotropy decay and solvation dynamics in a nanocavity: Coumarin 153 in methyl β-cyclodextrins

P Sen, D Roy, SK Mondal, K Sahu… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence anisotropy decay and solvation dynamics of coumarin 153 (C153) are studied
in dimethyl β-cyclodextrin (DIMEB) and trimethyl β-cyclodextrin (TRIMEB) nanocavity in …

Quantum dynamics of electronic excitations in biomolecular chromophores: role of the protein environment and solvent

J Gilmore, RH McKenzie - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2008 - ACS Publications
A biomolecular chromophore can be viewed as a quantum system with a small number of
degrees of freedom interacting with an environment (the surrounding protein and solvent) …