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ReviewBiochemical Society transactions2017

Durable vesicles for reconstitution of membrane proteins in biotechnology.

Paul A Beales, Sanobar Khan, Stephen P Muench, Lars J C Jeuken

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Review in Biochemical Society transactions, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Improving cell-free metabolism through direct integration of artificial respiratory chains.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Thermally Driven Dynamic Behaviors in Polymeric Vesicles.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  10. PEO-Biomacromolecules · 2022
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  13. Comparative Study of Lipid- and Polymer-Supported Membranes Obtained by Vesicle Fusion.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2022
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  15. Cell-Free Membrane Protein Expression into Hybrid Lipid/Polymer Vesicles.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  16. Light-Driven ATP Regeneration in Diblock/Grafted Hybrid Vesicles.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Paul A BealesSchool of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. p.a.beales@leeds.ac.uk.
Sanobar KhanSchool of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
Stephen P MuenchSchool of Biomedical Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
Lars J C JeukenSchool of Biomedical Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
University of Leeds · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The application of membrane proteins in biotechnology requires robust, durable reconstitution systems that enhance their stability and support their functionality in a range of working environments. Vesicular architectures are highly desirable to provide the compartmentalisation to utilise the functional transmembrane transport and signalling properties of membrane proteins. Proteoliposomes provide a native-like membrane environment to support membrane protein function, but can lack the required chemical and physical stability. Amphiphilic block copolymers can also self-assemble into polymersomes: tough vesicles with improved stability compared with liposomes. This review discusses the reconstitution of membrane proteins into polymersomes and the more recent development of hybrid vesicles, which blend the robust nature of block copolymers with the biofunctionality of lipids. These novel synthetic vesicles hold great promise for enabling membrane proteins within biotechnologies by supporting their enhanced

Indexed as

Biological TransportBiotechnologyLipid BilayersMembrane LipidsMembrane ProteinsModels, ChemicalModels, MolecularPolymersProteolipidsUnilamellar LiposomesLipid BilayersMembrane LipidsMembrane ProteinsPolymersProteolipidsproteoliposomesUnilamellar Liposomesbionanotechnologyblock copolymersin vitro reconstitutionmembrane proteinssynthetic biologyvesicles

Identifiers

PMID28202656
PMCPMC5310719
OpenAlexW2582237297

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