A combined neutron crystallography/IQNS study of water around lysozyme

This paper presents a combined structural and single-particle diffusive dynamics study of water around lysozyme, within triclinic crystals. Some interesting features in the solvent organization are reviewed, and a brief comparison is done with corresponding very high resolution X-ray studies. An atomic model of the dynamics of crystal water, at room temperature and on a time scale shorter than about 500 ps, is proposed, based on the direct comparison of neutron crystallography and incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering results.