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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 138, 期 25, 页码 7946-7950出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b03460
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- NIH [R01 GM079440, T32 GM008403]
- NSF [MCB1412108]
Quantitating and understanding the physical forces responsible for the interactions of biomolecules are fundamental to the biological sciences. This is especially challenging for membrane proteins because they are embedded within cellular bilayers that provide a unique medium in which hydrophobic sequences must fold. Knowledge of the energetics of protein lipid interactions is thus vital to understand cellular processes involving membrane proteins. Here we used a host guest mutational strategy to calculate the Gibbs free energy changes of water-to lipid transfer for the aromatic side chains Tip, Tyr, and Phe as a function of depth in the membrane. This work reveals an energetic gradient in the transfer free energies for Tip and Tyr, where transfer was most favorable to the membrane interfacial region and comparatively less favorable into the bilayer center. The transfer energetics follows the concentration gradient of polar atoms across the bilayer normal that naturally occurs in biological membranes. Additional measurements revealed nearest-neighbor coupling in the data set are influenced by a network of aromatic side chains in the host protein. Taken together, these results show that aromatic side chains contribute significantly to membrane protein stability through either aromatic aromatic interactions or placement at the membrane interface.
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