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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 137, 期 50, 页码 15676-15679出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b11354
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- Human Frontier Science Program [RGP0064]
- National Health and Medical Research Council [1030902]
- ARC QEII Fellowship [DP110104369]
- ARC Future Fellowship [FT120100145]
- Australian Research Council [FT120100145] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
The mechanisms of assembly and function for many important type I/II (single-pass) transmembrane (TM) receptors are proposed to involve the formation and/or alteration of specific interfaces among their membrane-embedded alpha-helical TM domains. The application of lipidic cubic phase (LCP) bilayer media for crystallization of single-alpha-helical TM complexes has the potential to provide valuable structural and mechanistic insights into many such systems. However, the fidelity of the interfaces observed in crowded crystalline arrays has been difficult to establish from the very limited number of such structures determined using X-ray diffraction data. Here we examine this issue using the glycophorin A (GpA) model system; whose homodimeric TM helix interface has been characterized by solution and solid-state NMR and biochemical techniques but never crystallographically. We report that a GpA-TM peptide readily crystallized in a mono olein cubit phase bilayer, yielding a dimeric alpha-helical structure that is in excellent agreement with previously reported NMR measurements made in several different types of host media. These results provide compelling support for the wider application of LCP techniques to enable X-ray crystallographic analysis of single-pass TM interactions.
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