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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2010

Probing the spontaneous membrane insertion of a tail-anchored membrane protein by sum frequency generation spectroscopy.

Khoi Tan Nguyen, Ronald Soong, Sang-Choul Lm, Lucy Waskell, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Zhan Chen

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Khoi Tan NguyenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, USA.
Ronald Soong
Sang-Choul Lm
Lucy Waskell
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy
Zhan Chen
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

Supplement: Investigation of Membrane-Bound Cytochromes-P450-b5 InteractionsR01GM084018 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI RAMAMOORTHY, AYYALUSAMY · 2009 to 2018
$3.8M
PARTICIPATION OF CYTOCHROME B5 IN ANESTHETIC METABOLISMR01GM035533 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WASKELL, LUCY A · 1985 to 2010
$2.7M
SFG Investigation of Peptide and Protein Orientations in MembranesR01GM081655 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CHEN, ZHAN · 2008 to 2012
$1.5M
Purchase of a 500 MHz Solid State NMR SpectrometerS10RR023597 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI RAMAMOORTHY, AYYALUSAMY · 2007 to 2007
$500k
NCRR NIH HHS RR023597NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR023597NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01GM081655-01A2NIGMS NIH HHS GM035533NIGMS NIH HHS GM084018NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM035533NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM081655NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In addition to providing a semipermeable barrier that protects a cell from harmful stimuli, lipid membranes occupy a central role in hosting a variety of biological processes, including cellular communications and membrane protein functions. Most importantly, protein-membrane interactions are implicated in a variety of diseases and therefore many analytical techniques were developed to study the basis of these interactions and their influence on the molecular architecture of the cell membrane. In this study, sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy is used to investigate the spontaneous membrane insertion process of cytochrome b(5) and its mutants. Experimental results show a significant difference in the membrane insertion and orientation properties of these proteins, which can be correlated with their functional differences. In particular, our results correlate the nonfunctional property of a mutant cytochrome b(5) with its inability to insert into the lipid bilayer. The approach reported in this study could be used as a potential rapid screening tool in measuring the topology of membrane proteins as well as interactions of biomolecules with lipid bilayers in situ.

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Spectrum AnalysisCell MembraneCytochromes b5Lipid BilayersMembrane ProteinsModels, MolecularMutationProtein ConformationCytochromes b5Lipid BilayersMembrane Proteins

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PMID20932011
PMCPMC2965819
OpenAlexW2056750771

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