STRUCTURE AT 2.5 ANGSTROM OF A DESIGNED PEPTIDE THAT MAINTAINS SOLUBILITY OF MEMBRANE-PROTEINS

被引:162
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SCHAFMEISTER, CE
MIERCKE, LJW
STROUD, RM
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[1] Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
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10.1126/science.8235592
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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A 24-amino acid peptide designed to solubilize integral membrane proteins has been synthesized. The design was for an amphipathic alpha helix with a ''flat'' hydrophobic surface that would interact with a transmembrane protein as a detergent. When mixed with peptide, 85 percent of bacteriorhodopsin and 60 percent of rhodopsin remained in solution over a period of 2 days in their native forms. The crystal structure of peptide alone showed it to form an antiparallel four-helix bundle in which monomers interact, flat surface to flat surface, as predicted.
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