Complex transitions between dihydrate and anhydrate forms of ectoine – unexpected behavior of a highly hygroscopic compatible solute in the solid state-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Complex transitions between dihydrate and anhydrate forms of ectoine – unexpected behavior of a highly hygroscopic compatible solute in the solid state

Published:2020 Issue:2 Volume:22 Page:169-172
ISSN:1466-8033
Container-title:CrystEngComm
language:en
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Author:

Hützler Wilhelm Maximilian¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Mossou Estelle⁶⁷⁸,Vollrath Ronnald⁹¹⁰¹¹⁵,Kohagen Miriam¹²¹³¹⁴⁵,El Ghrissi Imadine¹⁵¹⁶⁵,Grininger Martin¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Zaccai Giuseppe⁶⁷⁸¹⁷¹⁸,Smiatek Jens¹²¹³¹⁴⁵^ORCID,Oesterhelt Dieter⁹¹⁰¹¹⁵

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology

2. Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences

3. Goethe-University Frankfurt

4. 60438 Frankfurt am Main

5. Germany

6. Institute Laue-Langevin

7. 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9

8. France

9. Department of Membrane Biochemistry

10. Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry

11. 82152 Martinsried

12. Institute for Computational Physics

13. University of Stuttgart

14. 70569 Stuttgart

15. bitop AG

16. 44263 Dortmund

17. Univ. Grenoble Alpes

18. CNRS

Abstract

Crystallizing the compatible solute ectoine from water yields a metastable dihydrate that readily degrades to a highly hygroscopic anhydrate at ambient conditions; this strange behavior is examined and a rationale is presented.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Wallonie-Bruxelles International

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/CE/C9CE01599J

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1. Role of the Extremolytes Ectoine and Hydroxyectoine as Stress Protectants and Nutrients: Genetics, Phylogenomics, Biochemistry, and Structural Analysis

2. Physiological and genetic responses of bacteria to osmotic stress