Solution NMR: A powerful tool for structural and functional studies of membrane proteins in reconstituted environments

R Puthenveetil, O Vinogradova - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
A third of the genes in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes encode membrane proteins that
are either essential for signal transduction and solute transport or function as scaffold …

Solution NMR of membrane proteins: practice and challenges

CR Sanders, F Sönnichsen - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses upon the application of solution NMR methods to multispan integral
membrane proteins, particularly with respect to determination of global folds by this …

DNA-nanotube-induced alignment of membrane proteins for NMR structure determination

SM Douglas, JJ Chou, WM Shih - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Membrane proteins are encoded by 20–35% of genes but represent< 1% of known protein
structures to date. Thus, improved methods for membrane-protein structure determination …

The structure of phospholamban pentamer reveals a channel-like architecture in membranes

K Oxenoid, JJ Chou - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Contraction and relaxation of heart muscle cells is regulated by cycling of calcium between
cytoplasm and sarcoplasmic reticulum. Human phospholamban (PLN), expressed in the …

Solution nuclear magnetic resonance structure of membrane-integral diacylglycerol kinase

WD Van Horn, HJ Kim, CD Ellis, A Hadziselimovic… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Escherichia coli diacylglycerol kinase (DAGK) represents a family of integral membrane
enzymes that is unrelated to all other phosphotransferases. We have determined the three …

Determining membrane protein structures: still a challenge!

JJ Lacapere, E Pebay-Peyroula, JM Neumann… - Trends in biochemical …, 2007 - cell.com
Determination of structures and dynamics events of transmembrane proteins is important for
the understanding of their function. Analysis of such events requires high-resolution 3D …

His tag effect on solubility of human proteins produced in Escherichia coli: a comparison between four expression vectors

EA Woestenenk, M Hammarström… - Journal of structural and …, 2004 - Springer
We have compared four different vectors for expression of proteins with N-or C-terminal
hexahistidine (His 6) tags in Escherichia coli by testing these on 20 human proteins. We …

Site-directed parallel spin-labeling and paramagnetic relaxation enhancement in structure determination of membrane proteins by solution NMR spectroscopy

B Liang, JH Bushweller, LK Tamm - Journal of the American …, 2006 - ACS Publications
A major challenge for the structure determination of integral membrane proteins by solution
NMR spectroscopy is the limited number of NOE restraints in these systems stemming from …

A general protocol for the crystallization of membrane proteins for X-ray structural investigation

ZER Newby, JD O'Connell III, F Gruswitz, FA Hays… - Nature protocols, 2009 - nature.com
Protein crystallography is used to generate atomic resolution structures of protein molecules.
These structures provide information about biological function, mechanism and interaction of …

NMR study of the tetrameric KcsA potassium channel in detergent micelles

JH Chill, JM Louis, C Miller, A Bax - Protein Science, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of large membrane‐associated proteins are
limited by the difficulties in preparation of stable protein–detergent mixed micelles and by …