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Kondrashov OV, Kuzmin PI, Akimov SA. Pore Formation by Amphipathic Peptides in Closed Membranes. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW), SUPPLEMENT SERIES A: MEMBRANE AND CELL BIOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990747822050075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Kondrashov OV, Akimov SA. The Possibility of Pore Formation in Lipid Membranes by Several Molecules of Amphipathic Peptides. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW), SUPPLEMENT SERIES A: MEMBRANE AND CELL BIOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990747822050087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Krasnobaev VD, Galimzyanov TR, Akimov SA, Batishchev OV. Lysolipids regulate raft size distribution. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:1021321. [PMID: 36275621 PMCID: PMC9581197 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1021321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The lipid matrix of cellular membranes, directly and indirectly, regulates many vital functions of the cell. The diversity of lipids in membranes leads to the formation of ordered domains called rafts, which play a crucial role in signal transduction, protein sorting and other cellular processes. Rafts are believed to impact the development of different neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s ones, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, some types of cancer, etc. These diseases correlate with the change in the membrane lipid composition resulting from an oxidative stress, age-related processes, dysfunction of proteins, and many others. In particular, a lot of studies report a significant rise in the level of lysolipids. Physicochemical properties of rafts are determined by membrane composition, in particular, by the content of lysolipids. Lysolipids may thus regulate raft-involving processes. However, the exact mechanism of such regulation is unknown. Although studying rafts in vivo still seems to be rather complicated, liquid-ordered domains are well observed in model systems. In the present study, we used atomic force microscopy (AFM) to examine how lysophospholipids influence the liquid-ordered domains in model ternary membranes. We demonstrated that even a small amount of lysolipids in a membrane significantly impacts domain size depending on the saturation of the lysolipid hydrocarbon tails and the amount of cholesterol. The mixture with the bigger relative fraction of cholesterol was more susceptible to the action of lysolipids. This data helped us to generalize our previous theoretical model of the domain size regulation by lipids with particular molecular shape expanding it to the case of lysolipids and dioleoylglycerol.
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- Vladimir D. Krasnobaev
- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Dolgoprudny, Russia
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- *Correspondence: Oleg V. Batishchev,
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Saitov A, Kalutsky MA, Galimzyanov TR, Glasnov T, Horner A, Akimov SA, Pohl P. Determinants of Lipid Domain Size. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23073502. [PMID: 35408861 PMCID: PMC8998648 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23073502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Lipid domains less than 200 nm in size may form a scaffold, enabling the concerted function of plasma membrane proteins. The size-regulating mechanism is under debate. We tested the hypotheses that large values of spontaneous monolayer curvature are incompatible with micrometer-sized domains. Here, we used the transition of photoswitchable lipids from their cylindrical conformation to a conical conformation to increase the negative curvature of a bilayer-forming lipid mixture. In contrast to the hypothesis, pre-existing micrometer-sized domains did not dissipate in our planar bilayers, as indicated by fluorescence images and domain mobility measurements. Elasticity theory supports the observation by predicting the zero free energy gain for splitting large domains into smaller ones. It also indicates an alternative size-determining mechanism: The cone-shaped photolipids reduce the line tension associated with lipid deformations at the phase boundary and thus slow down the kinetics of domain fusion. The competing influence of two approaching domains on the deformation of the intervening lipids is responsible for the kinetic fusion trap. Our experiments indicate that the resulting local energy barrier may restrict the domain size in a dynamic system.
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- Ali Saitov
- Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Gruberstraße 40, 4020 Linz, Austria; (A.S.); (A.H.)
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- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/5 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (M.A.K.); (T.R.G.); (S.A.A.)
- Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Technologies, National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”, 4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119049 Moscow, Russia
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- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/5 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (M.A.K.); (T.R.G.); (S.A.A.)
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria;
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- Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Gruberstraße 40, 4020 Linz, Austria; (A.S.); (A.H.)
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- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/5 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (M.A.K.); (T.R.G.); (S.A.A.)
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- Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Gruberstraße 40, 4020 Linz, Austria; (A.S.); (A.H.)
- Correspondence:
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Pinigin KV, Galimzyanov TR, Akimov SA. Amphipathic Peptides Impede Lipid Domain Fusion in Phase-Separated Membranes. MEMBRANES 2021; 11:membranes11110797. [PMID: 34832026 PMCID: PMC8618981 DOI: 10.3390/membranes11110797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Cell membranes are heterogeneous in lipid composition which leads to the phase separation with the formation of nanoscopic liquid-ordered domains, also called rafts. There are multiple cell processes whereby the clustering of these domains into a larger one might be involved, which is responsible for such important processes as signal transduction, polarized sorting, or immune response. Currently, antimicrobial amphipathic peptides are considered promising antimicrobial, antiviral, and anticancer therapeutic agents. Here, within the framework of the classical theory of elasticity adapted for lipid membranes, we investigate how the presence of the peptides in a phase-separated membrane influences the fusion of the domains. We show that the peptides tend to occupy the boundaries of liquid-ordered domains and significantly increase the energy barrier of the domain-domain fusion, which might lead to misregulation of raft clustering and adverse consequences for normal cell processes.
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Pinigin KV, Kuzmin PI, Akimov SA, Galimzyanov TR. Additional contributions to elastic energy of lipid membranes: Tilt-curvature coupling and curvature gradient. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:042406. [PMID: 33212684 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.042406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Lipid bilayer membranes under biologically relevant conditions are flexible thin laterally fluid films consisting of two unimolecular layers (monolayers) each about 2 nm thick. On spatial scales much larger than the bilayer thickness, the membrane elasticity is well determined by its shape. The classical Helfrich theory considers the membrane as an elastic two-dimensional (2D) film, which has no particular internal structure. However, various local membrane heterogeneities can result in a lipids tilt relative to the membrane surface normal. On the basis of the classical elasticity theory of 3D bodies, Hamm and Kozlov [Eur. Phys. J. E 3, 323 (2000)10.1007/s101890070003] derived the most general energy functional, taking into account the tilt and lipid monolayer curvature. Recently, Terzi and Deserno [J. Chem. Phys. 147, 084702 (2017)10.1063/1.4990404] showed that Hamm and Kozlov's derivation was incomplete because the tilt-curvature coupling term had been missed. However, the energy functional derived by Terzi and Deserno appeared to be unstable, thereby being invalid for applications that require minimizations of the overall energy of deformations. Here, we derive a stable elastic energy functional, showing that the squared gradient of the curvature was missed in both of these works. This change in the energy functional arises from a more accurate consideration of the transverse shear deformation terms and their influence on the membrane stability. We also consider the influence of the prestress terms on the stability of the energy functional, and we show that it should be considered small and the effective Gaussian curvature should be neglected because of the stability requirements. We further generalize the theory, including the stretching-compressing deformation modes, and we provide the geometrical interpretation of the terms that were previously missed by Hamm and Kozlov. The physical consequences of the new terms are analyzed in the case of a membrane-mediated interaction of two amphipathic peptides located in the same monolayer. We also provide the expression for director fluctuations, comparing it with that obtained by Terzi and Deserno.
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- Konstantin V Pinigin
- A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy prospekt, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy prospekt, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy prospekt, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy prospekt, Moscow 119071, Russia
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Saitov A, Akimov SA, Galimzyanov TR, Glasnov T, Pohl P. Ordered Lipid Domains Assemble via Concerted Recruitment of Constituents from Both Membrane Leaflets. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:108102. [PMID: 32216409 PMCID: PMC7115998 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.108102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Lipid rafts serve as anchoring platforms for membrane proteins. Thus far they escaped direct observation by light microscopy due to their small size. Here we used differently colored dyes as reporters for the registration of both ordered and disordered lipids from the two leaves of a freestanding bilayer. Photoswitchable lipids dissolved or reformed the domains. Measurements of domain mobility indicated the presence of 120 nm wide ordered and 40 nm wide disordered domains. These sizes are in line with the predicted roles of line tension and membrane undulation as driving forces for alignment.
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- Ali Saitov
- Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Gruberstraße 40, Linz 4020, Austria
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- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/5 Leninskiy prospekt, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/5 Leninskiy prospekt, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, Heinrichstr. 28, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Gruberstraße 40, Linz 4020, Austria
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Molotkovsky RJ, Alexandrova VV, Galimzyanov TR, Jiménez-Munguía I, Pavlov KV, Batishchev OV, Akimov SA. Lateral Membrane Heterogeneity Regulates Viral-Induced Membrane Fusion during HIV Entry. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19051483. [PMID: 29772704 PMCID: PMC5983600 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19051483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2018] [Revised: 05/08/2018] [Accepted: 05/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sphingomyelin- and cholesterol- enriched membrane domains, commonly referred to as “rafts” play a crucial role in a large number of intra- and intercellular processes. Recent experiments suggest that not only the volumetric inhomogeneity of lipid distribution in rafts, but also the arrangement of the 1D boundary between the raft and the surrounding membrane is important for the membrane-associated processes. The reason is that the boundary preferentially recruits different peptides, such as HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) fusion peptide. In the present work, we report a theoretical investigation of mechanisms of influence of the raft boundary arrangement upon virus-induced membrane fusion. We theoretically predict that the raft boundary can act as an attractor for viral fusion peptides, which preferentially distribute into the vicinity of the boundary, playing the role of ‘line active components’ of the membrane (‘linactants’). We have calculated the height of the fusion energy barrier and demonstrated that, in the case of fusion between HIV membrane and the target cell, presence of the raft boundary in the vicinity of the fusion site facilitates fusion. The results we obtained can be further generalized to be applicable to other enveloped viruses.
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- Rodion J Molotkovsky
- Laboratory of Bioelectrochemistry, A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
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- Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-2 Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Bioelectrochemistry, A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
- Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Technologies, National University of Science and Technology "MISiS", 4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119049 Moscow, Russia.
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- Department of Engineering of Technological Equipment, National University of Science and Technology "MISiS", 4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119049 Moscow, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Electrophysiology, Federal Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of FMBA, 1a Malaya Pirogovskaya Street, 119435 Moscow, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Bioelectrochemistry, A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
- Department of Physics of Living Systems, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), 9 Institutskiy Lane, Dolgoprudniy, 141700 Moscow Region, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Bioelectrochemistry, A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
- Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Technologies, National University of Science and Technology "MISiS", 4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119049 Moscow, Russia.
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Galimzyanov TR, Kuzmin PI, Pohl P, Akimov SA. Undulations Drive Domain Registration from the Two Membrane Leaflets. Biophys J 2017; 112:339-345. [PMID: 28122219 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.12.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2016] [Revised: 12/04/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Phase separation in biological membranes plays an important role in protein targeting and transmembrane signaling. Its occurrence in both membrane leaflets commonly gives rise to matching liquid or liquid-ordered domains in the opposing monolayers. The underlying mechanism of such co-localization is not fully understood. The decrease of the line tension around the thicker ordered domain constitutes an important driving force. Yet, robust domain coupling requires an additional energy source, which we have now identified as thermal undulations. Our theoretical analysis of elastic deformations in a lipid bilayer shows that stiffer lipid domains tend to distribute into areas with lower fluctuations of monolayer curvature. These areas naturally align in the opposing monolayers. Thus, coupling requires both membrane leafs to display a heterogeneity in splay rigidities. The heterogeneity may either originate from intrinsic lipid properties or be acquired by adsorption of peripheral molecules. Undulations and line tension act synergistically: the gain in energy due a minimized line tension is proportional to domain radius and thus primarily fuels the registration of smaller domains; whereas the energetic contribution of undulations increases with membrane area and thus primarily acts to coalesce larger domains.
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- Timur R Galimzyanov
- Laboratory of Bioelectrochemistry, A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Technologies, National University of Science and Technology "MISiS", Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratory of Bioelectrochemistry, A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular and Membrane Biophysics, Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
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- Laboratory of Bioelectrochemistry, A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Technologies, National University of Science and Technology "MISiS", Moscow, Russia.
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Bocharov EV, Mineev KS, Pavlov KV, Akimov SA, Kuznetsov AS, Efremov RG, Arseniev AS. Helix-helix interactions in membrane domains of bitopic proteins: Specificity and role of lipid environment. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2016; 1859:561-576. [PMID: 27884807 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Revised: 09/18/2016] [Accepted: 10/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Interaction between transmembrane helices often determines biological activity of membrane proteins. Bitopic proteins, a broad subclass of membrane proteins, form dimers containing two membrane-spanning helices. Some aspects of their structure-function relationship cannot be fully understood without considering the protein-lipid interaction, which can determine the protein conformational ensemble. Experimental and computer modeling data concerning transmembrane parts of bitopic proteins are reviewed in the present paper. They highlight the importance of lipid-protein interactions and resolve certain paradoxes in the behavior of such proteins. Besides, some properties of membrane organization provided a clue to understanding of allosteric interactions between distant parts of proteins. Interactions of these kinds appear to underlie a signaling mechanism, which could be widely employed in the functioning of many membrane proteins. Treatment of membrane proteins as parts of integrated fine-tuned proteolipid system promises new insights into biological function mechanisms and approaches to drug design. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Lipid order/lipid defects and lipid-control of protein activity edited by Dirk Schneider.
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- Eduard V Bocharov
- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Miklukho-Maklaya ul. 16/10, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation; National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", Akad. Kurchatova pl. 1, Moscow, 123182, Russian Federation.
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Miklukho-Maklaya ul. 16/10, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry RAS, Leninskiy prospect 31/5, Moscow, 119071, Russian Federation
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry RAS, Leninskiy prospect 31/5, Moscow, 119071, Russian Federation; National University of Science and Technology "MISiS", Leninskiy prospect 4, Moscow, 119049, Russian Federation
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Miklukho-Maklaya ul. 16/10, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Miklukho-Maklaya ul. 16/10, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation; Higher School of Economics, Myasnitskaya ul. 20, Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Miklukho-Maklaya ul. 16/10, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation.
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