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lüll Probing the role of water in protein conformation and function Rand RPPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2004[Aug]; 359 (1448): 1277-84; discussion 1284-5Life began in a bath of water and has never escaped it. Cellular function has forced the evolution of many mechanisms ensuring that cellular water concentration has never changed significantly. To free oneself of any conceptual distinction among all small molecules, solutes and solvents, means that experiments to probe water's specific role in molecular function can be designed like any classical chemical reaction. Such an 'osmotic stress' strategy will be described in general and for an enzyme, hexokinase. Water behaves like a reactant that competes with glucose in binding to hexokinase, and modulates its conformational change and activity. This 'osmotic stress' strategy, now applied to many very different systems, shows that water plays a significant role, energetically, in most macromolecular reactions. It can be required to fill obligatory space, it dominates nearest non-specific interactions between large surfaces, it can be a reactant modulating conformational change; all this in addition to its more commonly perceived static role as an integral part of stereospecific intramolecular structure.|Glucose/metabolism[MESH]|Hexokinase/*metabolism[MESH]|Protein Conformation[MESH]|Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism[MESH]|Solubility[MESH]|Water-Electrolyte Balance/*physiology[MESH]|Water/chemistry/*metabolism[MESH] |