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Fifty-year protein mystery breaks open as acid-driven water loss comes into view
- June 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Proteins systematically lose their protective hydration shell when their environment becomes more acidic. Until recently, this was just a theory. State-of-the-art imaging techniques have helped researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) directly observe this process for the first time at the level of the individual water molecule. This has answered a question in biochemistry that had remained unanswered for 50 years.
Originally published at Phys.org