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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 49, Issue 4, Pages 653-655Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi902155t
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- National Institutes of Health [RO1 DC007416, T32 NS007491]
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Voltage-gated potassium channel modulatory membrane protein KCNE3 was overexpressed and purified into both micelles and bicelles. Remarkably, microinjection of KCNE3 in bicelles into Xenopus oocytes resulted in functional co-assembly with the human KCNQ1 channel expressed therein. Microinjection of LMPC micelles containing KCNE3 did not result in channel modulation, indicating that bicelles sometimes succeed at delivering a membrane protein into a cellular membrane when classical micelles fall. Backbone NMR resonance assignments were completed for KCNE3 in both bicelles and LMPC, indicating that the secondary structure distribution in KCNE3's N-terminus and transmembrane domains exhibits only modest differences from that of KCNE1, even though these KCNE family members have very different effects on KCNQ1 channel function.
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