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Wang B, Tieleman DP. The structure, self-assembly and dynamics of lipid nanodiscs revealed by computational approaches. Biophys Chem 2024; 309:107231. [PMID: 38569455 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2024.107231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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Nanodisc technology is increasingly being used in structural, biochemical and biophysical studies of membrane proteins. The computational approaches have revealed many important features of nanodisc assembly, structures and dynamics. Therefore, we reviewed the application of computational approaches, especially molecular modeling and molecular dyncamics (MD) simulations, to characterize nanodiscs, including the structural models, assembly and disassembly, protocols for modeling, structural properties and dynamics, and protein-lipid interactions in nanodiscs. More amazing computational studies about nanodiscs are looked forward to in the future.
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- Beibei Wang
- Centre for Advanced Materials Research, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China.
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Molecular Simulation, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 1N4, Canada.
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Drab M, Pandur Ž, Penič S, Iglič A, Kralj-Iglič V, Stopar D. A Monte Carlo study of giant vesicle morphologies in nonequilibrium environments. Biophys J 2021; 120:4418-4428. [PMID: 34506775 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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It is known that giant vesicles undergo dynamic morphological changes when exposed to a detergent. The solubilization process may take multiple pathways. In this work, we identify lipid vesicle shape dynamics before the solubilization of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine giant vesicles with Triton X-100 (TR) detergent. The violent lipid vesicle dynamics was observed with laser confocal scanning microscopy and was qualitatively explained via a numerical simulation. A three-dimensional Monte Carlo scheme was constructed that emulated the nonequilibrium conditions at the beginning stages of solubilization, accounting for a gradual addition of TR detergent molecules into the lipid bilayers. We suggest that the main driving factor for morphology change in lipid vesicles is the associative tendency of the TR molecules, which induces spontaneous curvature of the detergent inclusions, an intrinsic consequence of their molecular shape. The majority of the observed lipid vesicle shapes in the experiments were found to correspond very well to the numerically calculated shapes in the phase space of possible solutions. The results give an insight into the early stages of lipid vesicle solubilization by amphiphilic molecules, which is nonequilibrium in nature and very difficult to study.
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- Mitja Drab
- Laboratory of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Laboratory of Clinical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Bioelectromagnetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Laboratory of Clinical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Clinical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Laboratory of Clinical Biophysics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Dey S, Saha J. Minimal Coarse-Grained Modeling toward Implicit Solvent Simulation of Generic Bolaamphiphiles. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:2938-2949. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c00734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Somajit Dey
- Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, 92, A.P.C Road, Kolkata 700009, India
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- Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, 92, A.P.C Road, Kolkata 700009, India
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Membrane proteins play a most important part in metabolism, signaling, cell motility, transport, development, and many other biochemical and biophysical processes which constitute fundamentals of life on the molecular level. Detailed understanding of these processes is necessary for the progress of life sciences and biomedical applications. Nanodiscs provide a new and powerful tool for a broad spectrum of biochemical and biophysical studies of membrane proteins and are commonly acknowledged as an optimal membrane mimetic system that provides control over size, composition, and specific functional modifications on the nanometer scale. In this review we attempted to combine a comprehensive list of various applications of nanodisc technology with systematic analysis of the most attractive features of this system and advantages provided by nanodiscs for structural and mechanistic studies of membrane proteins.
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- Ilia G Denisov
- Department of Biochemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- M. J. Greenall
- Institute of Mathematics,
Physics and Computer Science, Physical Sciences Building, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, United Kingdom
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Endocytic proteins drive vesicle growth via instability in high membrane tension environment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:E1423-32. [PMID: 25775509 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418491112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is a key pathway for transporting cargo into cells via membrane vesicles; it plays an integral role in nutrient import, signal transduction, neurotransmission, and cellular entry of pathogens and drug-carrying nanoparticles. Because CME entails substantial local remodeling of the plasma membrane, the presence of membrane tension offers resistance to bending and hence, vesicle formation. Experiments show that in such high-tension conditions, actin dynamics is required to carry out CME successfully. In this study, we build on these pioneering experimental studies to provide fundamental mechanistic insights into the roles of two key endocytic proteins-namely, actin and BAR proteins-in driving vesicle formation in high membrane tension environment. Our study reveals an actin force-induced "snap-through instability" that triggers a rapid shape transition from a shallow invagination to a highly invaginated tubular structure. We show that the association of BAR proteins stabilizes vesicles and induces a milder instability. In addition, we present a rather counterintuitive role of BAR depolymerization in regulating the shape evolution of vesicles. We show that the dissociation of BAR proteins, supported by actin-BAR synergy, leads to considerable elongation and squeezing of vesicles. Going beyond the membrane geometry, we put forth a stress-based perspective for the onset of vesicle scission and predict the shapes and composition of detached vesicles. We present the snap-through transition and the high in-plane stress as possible explanations for the intriguing direct transformation of broad and shallow invaginations into detached vesicles in BAR mutant yeast cells.
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Frolov VA, Escalada A, Akimov SA, Shnyrova AV. Geometry of membrane fission. Chem Phys Lipids 2015; 185:129-40. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2014.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2014] [Revised: 07/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Hu JM, Tian WD, Ma YQ. The self-assembly of linear–dendritic and lipid-like copolymers investigated by computer simulations. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra09167a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Wang Y, Li B, Jin H, Zhou Y, Lu Z, Yan D. Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulation Study on Vesicles Self-Assembled from Amphiphilic Hyperbranched Multiarm Copolymers. Chem Asian J 2014; 9:2281-8. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.201402146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Revised: 04/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Hoang DT, Song J, Jo J. Partial mixing phase of binary cells in finite systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:062725. [PMID: 24483504 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.062725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We study the self-organization of binary cell mixtures in finite cubic lattices. Depending on the relative attractions between cell types, the binary mixture model generates four distinct cellular associations: complete sorting, shell-core sorting, partial mixing, and complete mixing of heterotypic cells. At the boundaries between these four phases, the cellular associations show large variations, representing phase transitions. We find that the partial mixing phase is highly tolerant to thermal fluctuations. Interestingly, human pancreatic islets, the micro-organs for glucose homeostasis, adapt the partial mixing phase consisting of α and β cells.
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- Danh-Tai Hoang
- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Korea
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- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Korea and Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
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- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Korea and Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
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