Biophysical Journal 38: 47-52 (1982)
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Deuterium NMR of water in immobilized protein systems.

ABSTRACT

Deuterium NMR spectra are reported for lysozyme crystals, powders, and frozen solutions. At high water contents the spectrum is a superposition of a narrow central component and a quadrupole doublet. The quadrupole splitting and the relaxation rates of both components, monitored as a function of water content and temperature, are discussed in terms of models for the water-protein interaction. The anisotropy of the water molecule motion is clearly demonstrated by the deuterium quadrupole splitting observed in the protein single crystal, but such splittings were not found in protein powders and frozen protein solutions. We therefore suggest that the most useful view of such data is to consider the water-protein interactions at the surface to be mixed rapidly and that a distribution of interactions be invoked rather than an oversimplified view often taken of a two or n-site mixing where n is small.

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