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Email: Edgar Meyer - model_em@yahoo.com
The Scientist 2004, 18(24):10

20 December 2004

Concerning your story on structured water,[1] you may want to consider the other type of structured water, namely, inside proteins. My study of internal water is now dated,[2] but it proved fresh insights, based on high-resolution crystallographic data, that went beyond single or groups of water molecules to discuss the role of hydrogen bonding in proton (electron) transfer. In fact, almost every place I looked, when water was structurally integral to macromolecules, it had functional significance, and nature went to great lengths to exclude water when it was in the way.


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