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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2018

Oligomeric Structure and Three-Dimensional Fold of the HIV gp41 Membrane-Proximal External Region and Transmembrane Domain in Phospholipid Bilayers.

Byungsu Kwon, Myungwoon Lee, Alan J Waring, Mei Hong

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Byungsu KwonDepartment of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 170 Albany Street , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
Myungwoon LeeDepartment of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 170 Albany Street , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.
Alan J WaringDepartment of Medicine , Harbor-UCLA Medical Center , 1000 West Carson Street, Building RB2 , Torrance , California 90502 , United States.
Mei HongDepartment of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 170 Albany Street , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5255-5858
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USUCLA Medical Center · US

Funding

Structures and lipid interactions of curvature-inducing membrane peptides by NMRR01GM066976 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HONG, MEI · 2003 to 2021
$4.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM066976
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The HIV-1 glycoprotein, gp41, mediates fusion of the virus lipid envelope with the target cell membrane during virus entry into cells. Despite extensive studies of this protein, inconsistent and contradictory structural information abounds in the literature about the C-terminal membrane-interacting region of gp41. This C-terminal region contains the membrane-proximal external region (MPER), which harbors the epitopes for four broadly neutralizing antibodies, and the transmembrane domain (TMD), which anchors the protein to the virus lipid envelope. Due to the difficulty of crystallizing and solubilizing the MPER-TMD, most structural studies of this functionally important domain were carried out using truncated peptides either in the absence of membrane-mimetic solvents or bound to detergents and lipid bicelles. To determine the structural architecture of the MPER-TMD in the native environment of lipid membranes, we have now carried out a solid-state NMR study of the full MPER-TMD segment bound to cholesterol-containing phospholipid bilayers.

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HIV Envelope Protein gp41Lipid BilayersPhospholipidsProtein ConformationProtein FoldingHIV Envelope Protein gp41Lipid BilayersPhospholipids

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PMID29888593
PMCPMC6382510
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