A guide to membrane protein X‐ray crystallography

AA Kermani - The FEBS journal, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Membrane proteins play critical physiological roles in all organisms, from ion transport and
signal transduction to multidrug resistance. Elucidating their 3D structures is essential for …

An overview of the top ten detergents used for membrane protein crystallization

A Stetsenko, A Guskov - Crystals, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
To study integral membrane proteins, one has to extract them from the membrane—the step
that is typically achieved by the application of detergents. In this mini-review, we summarize …

A general protocol for the generation of Nanobodies for structural biology

E Pardon, T Laeremans, S Triest, SGF Rasmussen… - Nature protocols, 2014‏ - nature.com
There is growing interest in using antibodies as auxiliary tools to crystallize proteins. Here
we describe a general protocol for the generation of Nanobodies to be used as …

Membrane proteins bind lipids selectively to modulate their structure and function

A Laganowsky, E Reading, TM Allison… - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
Previous studies have established that the folding, structure and function of membrane
proteins are influenced by their lipid environments,,,,,, and that lipids can bind to specific …

Mass spectrometry of intact membrane protein complexes

A Laganowsky, E Reading, JTS Hopper… - Nature protocols, 2013‏ - nature.com
Mass spectrometry (MS) of intact soluble protein complexes has emerged as a powerful
technique to study the stoichiometry, structure-function and dynamics of protein assemblies …

Lipid–protein interactions in plasma membrane organization and function

T Sych, KR Levental, E Sezgin - Annual review of biophysics, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Lipid–protein interactions in cells are involved in various biological processes, including
metabolism, trafficking, signaling, host–pathogen interactions, and transmembrane …

High-throughput stability screening for detergent-solubilized membrane proteins

V Kotov, K Bartels, K Veith, I Josts… - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Protein stability in detergent or membrane-like environments is the bottleneck for structural
studies on integral membrane proteins (IMP). Irrespective of the method to study the …

Denaturing and native mass spectrometric analytics for biotherapeutic drug discovery research: historical, current, and future personal perspectives

IDG Campuzano, W Sandoval - … of the American Society for Mass …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Mass spectrometry (MS) plays a key role throughout all stages of drug development and is
now as ubiquitous as other analytical techniques such as surface plasmon resonance …

Porous nucleating agents for protein crystallization

S Khurshid, E Saridakis, L Govada, NE Chayen - Nature protocols, 2014‏ - nature.com
Solving the structure of proteins is pivotal to achieving success in rational drug design and in
other biotechnological endeavors. The most powerful method for determining the structure of …

Nanoliter-scale protein crystallization and screening with a microfluidic droplet robot

Y Zhu, LN Zhu, R Guo, HJ Cui, S Ye, Q Fang - Scientific reports, 2014‏ - nature.com
Large-scale screening of hundreds or even thousands of crystallization conditions while with
low sample consumption is in urgent need, in current structural biology research. Here we …