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Yamamoto K, Pearcy P, Lee DK, Yu C, Im SC, Waskell L, Ramamoorthy A. Temperature-resistant bicelles for structural studies by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:1496-1504. [PMID: 25565453 DOI: 10.1021/la5043876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Three-dimensional structure determination of membrane proteins is important to fully understand their biological functions. However, obtaining a high-resolution structure has been a major challenge mainly due to the difficulties in retaining the native folding and function of membrane proteins outside of the cellular membrane environment. These challenges are acute if the protein contains a large soluble domain, as it needs bulk water unlike the transmembrane domains of an integral membrane protein. For structural studies on such proteins either by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy or X-ray crystallography, bicelles have been demonstrated to be superior to conventional micelles, yet their temperature restrictions attributed to their thermal instabilities are a major disadvantage. Here, we report an approach to overcome this drawback through searching for an optimum combination of bicellar compositions. We demonstrate that bicelles composed of 1,2-didecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DDPC) and 1,2-diheptanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholin (DHepPC), without utilizing additional stabilizing chemicals, are quite stable and are resistant to temperature variations. These temperature-resistant bicelles have a robust bicellar phase and magnetic alignment over a broad range of temperatures, between -15 and 80 °C, retain the native structure of a membrane protein, and increase the sensitivity of solid-state NMR experiments performed at low temperatures. Advantages of two-dimensional separated-local field (SLF) solid-state NMR experiments at a low temperature are demonstrated on magnetically aligned bicelles containing an electron carrier membrane protein, cytochrome b5. Morphological information on different DDPC-based bicellar compositions, varying q ratio/size, and hydration levels obtained from (31)P NMR experiments in this study is also beneficial for a variety of biophysical and spectroscopic techniques, including solution NMR and magic-angle-spinning (MAS) NMR for a wide range of temperatures.
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- Kazutoshi Yamamoto
- Department of Chemistry and Biophysics, University of Michigan , 930 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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Leal C, Topgaard D, Martin RW, Wennerström H. NMR Studies of Molecular Mobility in a DNA−Amphiphile Complex. J Phys Chem B 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0480495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Cecília Leal
- Physical Chemistry1, Lund University, POB 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden and Materials Sciences Division, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Physical Chemistry1, Lund University, POB 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden and Materials Sciences Division, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Physical Chemistry1, Lund University, POB 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden and Materials Sciences Division, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Physical Chemistry1, Lund University, POB 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden and Materials Sciences Division, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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Rosenbusch JP. Stability of membrane proteins: relevance for the selection of appropriate methods for high-resolution structure determinations. J Struct Biol 2001; 136:144-57. [PMID: 11886216 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.2001.4431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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High stability is a prominent characteristic of integral membrane proteins of known atomic structure. But rather than being an intrinsic property, it may be due to a selection exerted by biochemical procedures prior to structure determination, since solubilization results in the transient exposure of membrane proteins to solution conditions. This may cause structural perturbations that interfere with 3D crystallization and hence with X-ray analysis. This problem also affects the preparation of samples for electron crystallography and NMR studies and may account for the fact that high-resolution structures of representatives of whole groups, such as transport proteins and signal transducers, have not been elucidated so far by any method. A knowledge of the proportion of labile proteins among membrane proteins, and of the kinetics of their denaturation, is therefore necessary. Establishing stability profiles, developing methods to maintain lateral pressure, or preventing contact with water (or both) should prove significant in establishing the structures of conformationally flexible proteins.
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Bartoschek S, Johansson M, Geierstanger BH, Okun JG, Lancaster CR, Humpfer E, Yu L, Yu CA, Griesinger C, Brandt U. Three molecules of ubiquinone bind specifically to mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:35231-4. [PMID: 11481318 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.c100365200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Bifurcated electron flow to high potential "Rieske" iron-sulfur cluster and low potential heme b(L) is crucial for respiratory energy conservation by the cytochrome bc(1) complex. The chemistry of ubiquinol oxidation has to ensure the thermodynamically unfavorable electron transfer to heme b(L). To resolve a central controversy about the number of ubiquinol molecules involved in this reaction, we used high resolution magic-angle-spinning nuclear magnetic resonance experiments to show that two out of three n-decyl-ubiquinones bind at the ubiquinol oxidation center of the complex. This substantiates a proposed mechanism in which a charge transfer between a ubiquinol/ubiquinone pair explains the bifurcation of electron flow.
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- S Bartoschek
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Organische Chemie, Marie-Curie-Strasse 11, D-60439 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Nomura K, Koga T. Separation of the Intramembrane Diffusion Potential and the Donnan Potential on the Basis of the Potential Transient Measurement: Application to the Analysis of Reverse Ion Permeation Driven by pH Difference. J Colloid Interface Sci 1998; 205:374-379. [PMID: 9735200 DOI: 10.1006/jcis.1998.5628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In the perfluorocarboxylate ion exchange membrane-aqueous sodium chloride system, the diffusional flux of sodium ions against their own concentration difference was observed in the presence of a pH difference across the membrane. The internal solution contained 1 x 10(-1) mol dm-3 NaOH and 1 x 10(-1) mol dm-3 NaCl, and the external solution contained 2 x 10(-1) mol dm-3 NaCl and HCl of various concentrations in the range of 1 x 10(-2) to 1 x 10(-1) mol dm-3. In these membrane systems, it was observed that the membrane potential rapidly changed in response to a pH jump in the external side of two aqueous phases to reach an intermediate stage and then the subsequent step started to relax slowly to the final membrane potential at the other steady state. On the basis of the assignment that the earlier fast step and subsequent slow step observed in the generation process of the membrane potential are the generation processes of the Donnan potential at the membrane/solution interface and the intramembrane diffusion potential, respectively, the total membrane potential has been divided into these two constituents. By using the observed Donnan potential, the ion concentration at the membrane surface in the membrane was obtained. The ion flux was analyzed to obtain the diffusion coefficient of ions within the membrane by using the ion concentration at the membrane surface in the membrane and the intramembrane diffusion potential. The pH dependence of the diffusion coefficient and that of the ion concentration at the surface in the membrane showed a break point near the apparent pKa, where the transition of the ion cluster structure in the membrane would occur. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.
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- K Nomura
- Faculty of Science, Kyushu University Ropponmatsu, Ropponmatsu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, 810-8560, Japan
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2H NMR. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6881(98)80010-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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Fedotov V, Zuev Y, Archipov V, Idiyatullin Z, Garti N. A Fourier transform pulsed-gradient spin echo nuclear magnetic resonance self-diffusion study of microemulsions and the droplet size determination. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0927-7757(97)03900-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ristori S, Maggiulli C, Appell J, Marchionni G, Martini G. Magnetic Resonance Characterization of Betaine Micelles and Betaine−Perfluoropolyether Mixed Vesicles. J Phys Chem B 1997. [DOI: 10.1021/jp963745t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Sandra Ristori
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitá di Firenze, 50121 Firenze, Italy, G.D.P.C. (UMR CNRS) case 26, Université de Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France, and Ausimont S.p.A., Research & Development, 20021 Bollate, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitá di Firenze, 50121 Firenze, Italy, G.D.P.C. (UMR CNRS) case 26, Université de Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France, and Ausimont S.p.A., Research & Development, 20021 Bollate, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitá di Firenze, 50121 Firenze, Italy, G.D.P.C. (UMR CNRS) case 26, Université de Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France, and Ausimont S.p.A., Research & Development, 20021 Bollate, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitá di Firenze, 50121 Firenze, Italy, G.D.P.C. (UMR CNRS) case 26, Université de Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France, and Ausimont S.p.A., Research & Development, 20021 Bollate, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitá di Firenze, 50121 Firenze, Italy, G.D.P.C. (UMR CNRS) case 26, Université de Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France, and Ausimont S.p.A., Research & Development, 20021 Bollate, Milano, Italy
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Chapter 3 NMR Studies of Membrane Lipid Properties. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0070-2161(08)60207-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Morein S, Trouard TP, Hauksson JB, Rilfors L, Arvidson G, Lindblom G. Two-dimensional 1H-NMR of transmembrane peptides from Escherichia coli phosphatidylglycerophosphate synthase in micelles. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1996; 241:489-97. [PMID: 8917447 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00489.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Two 28-residue peptides, PTLLTLFRVILIPFFVLVFYKKKGKKKG [Pgs-(6-25)-peptidyl-KKKGKKKG; Pgs peptide A] and VEYAGIALFFVAAVLTLWSMLQYLSAAR [Pgs-(149-176)-peptide, Pgs peptide E], were synthesized and studied by CD and two-dimensional 1H-NMR spectroscopy. The first 20 amino acid residues of Pgs peptide A are identical to one predicted transmembrane segment (Pro6-Tyr25) of the integral membrane protein phosphatidylglycerophosphate synthase (Pgs) of Escherichia coli. Pgs peptide E is identical to another predicted transmembrane segment (Val149-Arg176), which is located in the C-terminal end of this lipid synthase. Pgs peptides A and E were dissolved in methanol or trifluoroethanol or were incorporated into solvent-free micelles of fully deuterated SDS. In all these systems, CD spectra of both peptides indicated an alpha-helical secondary structure. However, peptides that were solubilized in micelles exhibited the highest content of alpha-helix as judged from comparison of the CD spectra. Thermodynamically stable isotropic solutions at high peptide concentrations (1-3 mM) could only be obtained with the peptide incorporated in micelles; in organic solvents, significant peptide aggregation occurred. Relatively sharp peaks were obtained with 1H-NMR spectroscopy of the peptides in SDS micelles, which indicates rapid tumbling of the peptides in the micellar environment. Translational-diffusion coefficients of the micelles with and without peptide, determined by pulsed-field-gradient NMR, showed that the micellar size was unaffected by the solubilized peptide. The radius of the hydrated micelles was estimated to be about 2.7 nm (i.e. the mass of the aggregate is almost 30 kDa). Two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of both peptides solubilized in the micelles indicated an alpha-helical conformation. This observation is strengthened by an investigation of the hydrogen exchange of the peptide amide protons, where significantly less exchange of the amide protons was observed in the middle of the peptides compared with the ends.
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- S Morein
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden
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