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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Time-resolved measurements of an ion channel conformational change driven by a membrane phase transition.

Paul Stevenson, Andrei Tokmakoff

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hysteretic Conductance in Ion Channel Gating.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  4. Protein Dynamics by Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy.Annual review of analytical chemistry (Palo Alto, Calif.) · 2021
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  5. Atomistic Characterization of Gramicidin Channel Formation.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Paul StevensonDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-6616-0328
Andrei TokmakoffDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; tokmakoff@uchicago.edu.
University of Chicago · US

Funding

The Dynamics of Molecular Recognition by Proteins from 2D IR Spectroscopy and MD SimulationsR01GM118774 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI TOKMAKOFF, ANDREI · 2016 to 2019
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118774
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using temperature-jump infrared spectroscopy, we are able to trigger a gel-to-fluid phase transition in lipid vesicles and monitor in real time how a membrane protein responds to structural changes in the membrane. The melting of lipid domains in 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine vesicles is observed to occur in as fast as 50 ns, with a temperature dependence characteristic of critical slowing. Gramicidin D (gD) added to the membrane responds primarily to the change in thickness of the membrane on a timescale coincident with the membrane melting. Using structure-based spectral modeling, we assign the conformational changes to compression and rotation of a partially dissociated gD dimer. Free energy calculations indicate that the high rate is a result of near-barrierless diffusion on a protein energy landscape that is radically reshaped by membrane thinning. The structural changes associated with the phase transition are similar to the fluctuation modes of fluid phase membranes, highlighting the importance of understanding the dynamic nature of the membrane environment around proteins.

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Phase TransitionProtein ConformationCell MembraneHumansIon ChannelsLipid BilayersMembrane LipidsIon ChannelsLipid BilayersMembrane Lipidsbiophysicsion channelsIR spectroscopymembrane phase transitionmembrane proteins

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PMID28973859
PMCPMC5642709
OpenAlexW2762607353

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