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Water confined in solutions of biological relevance

  • Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: July 11, 2020

Abstract

In many relevant situations, water is not in its bulk form but instead attached to some substrates or filling some cavities. We shall call water in the latter environment confined water as opposed to bulk water. It is known that the confined water is essential for the stability and the function of biological macromolecules. In this paper, we provide a review of the experimental and computational advances over the past decades concerning the understanding of the structure and dynamics of water confined in aqueous solutions of biological relevance. Examples involving water in solution of organic solutes (cryoprotectants such as dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), sugars such as trehalose) are provided.


Corresponding author: Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, E-mail:
Article note: A collection of invited papers based on presentations at the 36th International Conference of Solution Chemistry (ICSC-36), held in Xining, China, 4–8 August 2019.

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Published Online: 2020-07-11
Published in Print: 2020-10-25

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