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Progress of membrane protein structural studies

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  • Corresponding author: TIAN Chang-lin, E-mail: cltian@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 28 June 2008
  • Rev Recd Date: 10 July 2008
  • Publish Date: 31 August 2008
    Abstract

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    Membrane proteins play vital roles in maintaining cells proper function, but structural studies of membrane proteins lag far behind water soluble proteins. Because it is unnecessary to prepare crystals of membrane proteins, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is coming to play an increasingly important role in membrane protein structural studies. Several NMR methods can be applied for different states of membrane protein samples. Solution NMR is used to study membrane protein in detergent micelles or in low q bicelles, and several membrane proteins structures have been solved using solution NMR. Static oriented solid state NMR can be applied for uniformly oriented membrane proteins in high q bicelles or in lipid bilayers. Methods of magic angle spinning (MAS) solid state NMR are also under development to solve membrane protein structures in lipid bilayers.

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    Membrane proteins play vital roles in maintaining cells proper function, but structural studies of membrane proteins lag far behind water soluble proteins. Because it is unnecessary to prepare crystals of membrane proteins, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is coming to play an increasingly important role in membrane protein structural studies. Several NMR methods can be applied for different states of membrane protein samples. Solution NMR is used to study membrane protein in detergent micelles or in low q bicelles, and several membrane proteins structures have been solved using solution NMR. Static oriented solid state NMR can be applied for uniformly oriented membrane proteins in high q bicelles or in lipid bilayers. Methods of magic angle spinning (MAS) solid state NMR are also under development to solve membrane protein structures in lipid bilayers.
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    [1]
    Wallin E, von Heijne G. Genome-wide analysis of integral membrane proteins from eubacterial, archaean, and eukaryotic organisms[J]. Protein Sci, 1998, 4: 1 029-1 038.
    [2]
    Chou J J, Kaufman J D, Stahl S J, et al. Micelle-induced curvature in a water-insoluble HIV-1 Env peptide revealed by NMR dipolar coupling measurement in stretched polyacrylamide gel[J]. J Am Chem Soc, 2002, 11: 2 450-2 451.
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    Al-Hashimi H M, Valafar H, Terrell M, et al. Variation of molecular alignment as a means of resolving orientational ambiguities in protein structures from dipolar couplings[J]. J Magn Reson, 2000, 2: 402-406.
    [4]
    Ottiger M, Bax A. Characterization of magnetically oriented phospholipid micelles for measurement of dipolar couplings in macromolecules[J]. J Biomol NMR, 1998, 3: 361-372.
    [5]
    Opella S J, Marassi F M. Structure determination of membrane proteins by NMR spectroscopy[J]. Chem Rev, 2004, 8: 3 587-3 606.
    [6]
    Nicholson L K, Moll F, Mixon T E, et al. Solid-state 15N NMR of oriented lipid bilayer bound gramicidin A[J]. Biochemistry, 1987, 21: 6 621-6 626.
    [7]
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    [8]
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    [9]
    Poget S F, Girvin M E. Solution NMR of membrane proteins in bilayer mimics: small is beautiful, but sometimes bigger is better[J]. Biochim Biophys Acta, 2007, 12: 3 098-3 106.
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    [43]
    Shimba N, Kovacs H, Stern A S, et al. Optimization of 13C direct detection NMR methods[J]. J Biomol NMR, 2004, 2: 175-179.
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    Bertini I, Felli I C, Kummerle R, et al. 13C-13C NOESY: A constructive use of 13C-13C spin-diffusion[J]. J Biomol NMR, 2004, 3: 245-251.
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    Morcombe C R, Paulson E K, Gaponenko V, et al. 1H-15N correlation spectroscopy of nanocrystalline proteins[J]. J Biomol NMR, 2005, 3: 217-230.
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    Lefman J, Zhang P, Hirai T, et al. Three-dimensional electron microscopic imaging of membrane invaginations in Escherichia coli overproducing the chemotaxis receptor Tsr[J]. J Bacteriol, 2004, 15: 5 052-5 061.
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    Elmes M L, Scraba D G, Weiner J H. Isolation and characterization of the tubular organelles induced by fumarate reductase overproduction in Escherichia coli[J]. J Gen Microbiol, 1986, 1 429-1 439.
    [50]
    Reif B, Griffin R G. 1H detected 1H,15N correlation spectroscopy in rotating solids[J]. J Magn Reson, 2003,1: 78-83.
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    Zhou D H, Shah G, Cormos M, et al. Proton-detected solid-state NMR spectroscopy of fully protonated proteins at 40 kHz magic-angle spinning[J]. J Am Chem Soc, 2007,38: 11 791-11 801.
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