We performed classical molecular dynamics simulations using both fixed-charge and polarizable water and protein force fields to contrast the hydration dynamics near hydrophilic and amphiphilic peptides as a function of temperature. The high peptide concentrations we use serve as a model for the surface of folded proteins where hydration layers around each residue overlap significantly. Through simulation we determine that there are notable differences in the water dynamics analyzed from the outer and inner hydration layer regions of the amphiphilic peptide solution that explains the experimentally observed presence of two translational relaxations, while the hydrophilic peptide solution shows only a single non-Arrhenius translational process with no distinction between hydration layers. Given that water dynamics for the amphiphilic peptide system reproduces all known rotational and translational hydration dynamical anomalies exhibited by hydration water near protein surfaces, our analysis provides strong evidence that dynamical signatures near biological interfaces arises because of frustration in the hydration dynamics induced by chemical heterogeneity, as opposed to just topological roughness, of the protein surface.
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