Impact of novel detergents on membrane protein studies

HJ Lee, HS Lee, T Youn, B Byrne, PS Chae - Chem, 2022 - cell.com
Detergents are widely used for membrane protein solubilization, purification, and structural
analysis. Over the past two decades, much effort has been made to design novel detergents …

Rhodopsins: An excitingly versatile protein species for research, development and creative engineering

WJ de Grip, S Ganapathy - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The first member and eponym of the rhodopsin family was identified in the 1930s as the
visual pigment of the rod photoreceptor cell in the animal retina. It was found to be a …

Influenza hemagglutinin membrane anchor

DJ Benton, A Nans, LJ Calder, J Turner, U Neu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Viruses with membranes fuse them with cellular membranes, to transfer their genomes into
cells at the beginning of infection. For Influenza virus, the membrane glycoprotein involved …

Digital Microfluidics and Magnetic Bead‐Based Intact Proteoform Elution for Quantitative Top‐down Nanoproteomics of Single C. elegans Nematodes

J Leipert, PT Kaulich, MK Steinbach… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While most nanoproteomics approaches for the analysis of low‐input samples are based on
bottom‐up proteomics workflows, top‐down approaches enabling proteoform …

Advances in membrane mimetic systems for manipulation and analysis of membrane proteins: Detergents, polymers, lipids and scaffolds

M Woubshete, S Cioccolo, B Byrne - ChemPlusChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Extracting membrane proteins from the hydrophobic environment of the biological
membrane, in a physiologically relevant and stable state, suitable for downstream analysis …

Structure–function relationships of olfactory and taste receptors

M Behrens, L Briand, CA de March… - Chemical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The field of chemical senses has made major progress in understanding the cellular
mechanisms of olfaction and taste in the past 2 decades. However, the molecular …

Enabling STD-NMR fragment screening using stabilized native GPCR: A case study of adenosine receptor

S Igonet, C Raingeval, E Cecon, M Pučić-Baković… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Structural studies of integral membrane proteins have been limited by the intrinsic
conformational flexibility and the need to stabilize the proteins in solution. Stabilization by …

Foldable detergents for membrane protein study: Importance of detergent core flexibility in protein stabilization

L Ghani, S Kim, H Wang, HS Lee… - … A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Membrane proteins are of biological and pharmaceutical significance. However, their
structural study is extremely challenging mainly due to the fact that only a small number of …

Conformationally preorganized diastereomeric norbornane-based maltosides for membrane protein study: Implications of detergent kink for micellar properties

M Das, Y Du, O Ribeiro, P Hariharan… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Detergents are essential tools for functional and structural studies of membrane proteins.
However, conventional detergents are limited in their scope and utility, particularly for …

Melamine-cored glucosides for membrane protein solubilization and stabilization: importance of water-mediated intermolecular hydrogen bonding in detergent …

L Ghani, S Kim, M Ehsan, B Lan, IH Poulsen, C Dev… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Membrane proteins play essential roles in a number of biological processes, and their
structures are important in elucidating such processes at the molecular level and also for …