Martina Havenith-Newen - Selected Publications#

1. U. Heugen, G. Schwaab, E. Bründermann, M. Heyden, X. Yu, D.M. Leitner, M. Havenith, Solute-induced retardation of water dynamics probed directly by THz spectroscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103, 12301 (2006). (320 citations)

2. S. Ebbinghaus, S.J. Kim, M. Heyden, X. Yu, U. Heugen, M. Gruebele, D.M. Leitner, M. Havenith, An extended dynamical hydration shell around proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 20749 (2007). (424 citations)

3. M. Heyden, E. Bründermann, U. Heugen, G. Niehues, D.M. Leitner, M. Havenith, Long range influence of carbohydrates on the solvation dynamics of water – Answers from THz absorption measurements and molecular modeling simulations. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 5773 (2007). (185 citations)

4. A. Gutberlet, G. Schwaab, Ö. Birer, M. Masia, A. Kaczmarek, H. Forbert, M. Havenith, D. Marx, Aggregation induced dissociation of HCl (H2O)4 below 1 K: The smallest droplet of acid. Science 324, 1545-1548 (2009) (116 citations)

5. M. Grossmann, B. Born, M. Heyden, D. Tworowski, G.B. Fields, I. Sagi, M. Havenith, Correlated structural kinetics and retarded solvent dynamics at the metalloprotease active site. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 18, 1102 (2011). (123 citations)

6. S. Funkner, G. Niehues, D.A. Schmidt, M. Heyden, G. Schwaab, K.M. Callahan, D.J. Tobias, M. Havenith, Watching the low frequency motions in aqueous salt solutions: the terahertz vibrational signatures of hydrated ions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 1030 (2012). (89 citations)

7. K. Meister, S. Ebbinghaus, Y. Xu, J.G. Duman, A. DeVries, M. Gruebele, D.M. Leitner, M. Havenith, Long-range protein-water dynamics in hyperactive insect antifreeze proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 110, 1617 (2003). (105 citations)

8. J. Sun, G. Niehues, H. Forbert, D. Decka, G. Schwaab, D. Marx, M. Havenith, Understanding THz spectra of aqueous solutions: glycine in light and heavy water. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 5031 (2014). (31 citations)

9. V. Conti Nibali, M. Havenith, New insights into the role of water in biological function: Studying solvated biomolecules using terahertz absorption spectroscopy in conjunction with molecular dynamics simulations. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 12800 (2014). invited paper, 69 citation)

10. J. Dielmann-Gessner, M. Grossman, V. Conti Nibali, B. Born, I. Solomonov, G.B. Fields, M. Havenith, I. Sagi, Enyzmatic turnover of macromolecules generates long-lasting protein-water-coupled motions beyond reaction steady state. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 111, 17857 (2014). (17 citations)

The paper on the role of water for enzyme catalysis found a broad interest and raised a lot of questions in the biophysics community.