Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 584, Issue 9, Pages 1721-1727Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.10.024
Keywords
Nanodisc; Membrane protein; Self-assembly
Funding
- [GM 33775]
- [GM 31756]
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Nanodiscs are soluble nanoscale phospholipid bilayers which can self-assemble integral membrane proteins for biophysical, enzymatic or structural investigations. This means for rendering membrane proteins soluble at the single molecule level offers advantages over liposomes or detergent micelles in terms of size, stability, ability to add genetically modifiable features to the Nanodisc structure and ready access to both sides of the phospholipid bilayer domain. Thus the Nanodisc system provides a novel platform for understanding membrane protein function. We provide an overview of the Nanodisc approach and document through several examples many of the applications to the study of the structure and function of integral membrane proteins. (C) 2009 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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