Water structure and chaotropicity: their uses, abuses and biological implications

Microbial community of the deep-sea brine LakeKryosseawater-brine interface is active below the chaotropicity limit of life as revealed by recovery of mRNA

(2015) Michail M. Yakimov et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A New Analysis of Mars “Special Regions”: Findings of the Second MEPAG Special Regions Science Analysis Group (SR-SAG2)

(2014) John D. Rummel et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Genome and physiology of the ascomycete filamentous fungusXeromyces bisporus, the most xerophilic organism isolated to date

(2014) Su-lin L. Leong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A decrease in bulk water and mannitol and accumulation of trehalose and trehalose-based oligosaccharides define a two-stage maturation process towards extreme stress resistance in ascospores ofNeosartorya fischeri(Aspergillus fischeri)

(2014) Timon T. Wyatt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiology of sugar-rich environments: diversity, ecology and system constraints

(2014) Bart Lievens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial weeds in hypersaline habitats: the enigma of the weed-likeHaloferax mediterranei

(2014) Aharon Oren et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Is there a common water-activity limit for the three domains of life?

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ISME Journal

How Much Weaker Are the Effects of Cations than Those of Anions? The Effects of K+ and Cs+ on the Molecular Organization of Liquid H2O

(2014) Takeshi Morita et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Counterion Effect on Interfacial Water at Charged Interfaces and Its Relevance to the Hofmeister Series

(2014) Satoshi Nihonyanagi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

New Insights into the Role of Water in Biological Function: Studying Solvated Biomolecules Using Terahertz Absorption Spectroscopy in Conjunction with Molecular Dynamics Simulations

(2014) Valeria Conti Nibali et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metastable liquid–liquid transition in a molecular model of water

(2014) Jeremy C. Palmer et al.   NATURE

Dynamic hydration shell restores Kauzmann's 1959 explanation of how the hydrophobic factor drives protein folding

(2014) R. L. Baldwin   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water and temperature relations of soil Actinobacteria

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

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(2013)   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Hydration of metal surfaces can be dynamically heterogeneous and hydrophobic

(2013) David T. Limmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The biology of habitat dominance; can microbes behave as weeds?

(2013) Jonathan A. Cray et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Effects of Alcohols and Compatible Solutes on the Activity of β-Galactosidase

(2012) Andrew N. W. Bell et al.   APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Directed Evolution of Subtilisin E into a Highly Active and Guanidinium Chloride- and Sodium Dodecylsulfate-Tolerant Protease

(2012) Zhenwei Li et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

A universal measure of chaotropicity and kosmotropicity

(2012) Jonathan A. Cray et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Optimization to Low Temperature Activity in Psychrophilic Enzymes

(2012) Caroline Struvay et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Volume Exclusion and H-Bonding Dominate the Thermodynamics and Solvation of Trimethylamine-N-oxide in Aqueous Urea

(2012) Jörg Rösgen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The putative liquid-liquid transition is a liquid-solid transition in atomistic models of water

(2011) David T. Limmer et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Viscosity of Aqueous Solutions and Local Microscopic Structure

(2011) T. Corridoni et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Quantifying why urea is a protein denaturant, whereas glycine betaine is a protein stabilizer

(2011) E. J. Guinn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Solutes determine the temperature windows for microbial survival and growth

(2010) Jason P. Chin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrophobic substances induce water stress in microbial cells

(2010) Prashanth Bhaganna et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Effect of Ions on the Structure of Water: Structure Making and Breaking

(2009) Yizhak Marcus   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Limits of life in hostile environments: no barriers to biosphere function?

(2009) Jim P. Williams et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pecorino Crotonese cheese: Study of bacterial population and flavour compounds

(2009) C.L. Randazzo et al.   FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Can Salting-In/Salting-Out Ions be Classified as Chaotropes/Kosmotropes?

(2009) Ronen Zangi   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Stable Liquid Water Droplet on a Water Monolayer Formed at Room Temperature on Ionic Model Substrates

(2009) Chunlei Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The inhomogeneous structure of water at ambient conditions

(2009) C. Huang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chemical Denaturants Inhibit the Onset of Dewetting

(2008) Jeremy L. England et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Protein Cold Denaturation as Seen From the Solvent

(2008) Monika Davidovic et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Allosteric regulation and catalysis emerge via a common route

(2008) Nina M Goodey et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Urea denaturation by stronger dispersion interactions with proteins than water implies a 2-stage unfolding

(2008) L. Hua et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water as an Active Constituent in Cell Biology

(2007) Philip Ball   CHEMICAL REVIEWS