Picosecond orientational dynamics of water in living cells

The cytoplasm’s crowdedness leads one to expect that cell water is different from bulk water. By measuring the rotational motion of water molecules in living cells, Tros et al. find that apart from a small fraction of water solvating biomolecules, cell water has the same dynamics as bulk water.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Martijn Tros, Linli Zheng, Johannes Hunger, Mischa Bonn, Daniel Bonn, Gertien J. Smits, Sander Woutersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00858-0