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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 41, Issue 15, Pages 4946-4952Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi0158674
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In this study, we have investigated the effect of hydrophobic mismatch between the thickness of the membrane and a transmembrane segment of a protein that directly inserts into the membrane bilayer. For this purpose we used mutants of the single-spanning PG coat protein that can spontaneously insert into Escherichia coli membrane vesicles and larae unilamellar vesicles (LUVs). The thickness of the liposomal bilayer could be altered by using lipids with different acyl chain lengths or by incorporation of cholesterol. The insertion efficiency of the protein clearly depended on the bilayer thickness, with most efficient insertion under hydrophobic matching conditions. To discriminate between effects of length and hydrophobicity, mutants with different synthetic transmembrane segments were constructed. These mutants inserted into LUVs in a mismatch-dependent manner. However, in particular for longer and less hydrophobic mutants, most efficient insertion was generally observed in thinner bilayers than expected on the basis of hydrophobic matching.
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