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ReviewProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2021

Nanodiscs: A toolkit for membrane protein science.

Stephen G Sligar, Ilia G Denisov

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Review in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
78citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

78 citing papers in PubMed, 148 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Guidelines for Comparing Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Biomolecules.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2026
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  5. DNA-Lipid Nanodiscs with a Polyethylene Glycol Interface.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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  8. Molecular Mechanisms Governing Peptide Nanodisc Assembly and Stability.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  12. The Nanodisc System for Investigating Protein-Lipid Interactions.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  16. Advances in native cell membrane nanoparticles system.Current opinion in structural biology · 2025
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  17. Dimerization propensity of the βProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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18 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephen G SligarDepartments of Biochemistry Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5548-2866
Ilia G DenisovDepartments of Biochemistry Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

Nanoscale Approaches to Understanding Membrane Protein FunctionR35GM118145 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI STEPHEN G. SLIGAR · 2016 to 2026
$7.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118145NIGMS NIH HHS R35GM118145
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membrane proteins are involved in numerous vital biological processes, including transport, signal transduction and the enzymes in a variety of metabolic pathways. Integral membrane proteins account for up to 30% of the human proteome and they make up more than half of all currently marketed therapeutic targets. Unfortunately, membrane proteins are inherently recalcitrant to study using the normal toolkit available to scientists, and one is most often left with the challenge of finding inhibitors, activators and specific antibodies using a denatured or detergent solubilized aggregate. The Nanodisc platform circumvents these challenges by providing a self-assembled system that renders typically insoluble, yet biologically and pharmacologically significant, targets such as receptors, transporters, enzymes, and viral antigens soluble in aqueous media in a native-like bilayer environment that maintain a target's functional activity. By providing a bilayer surface of defined composition and structure, Nanodiscs have found great utility in the study of cellular signaling complexes that assemble on a membrane surface. Nanodiscs provide a nanometer scale vehicle for the in vivo delivery of amphipathic drugs, therapeutic lipids, tethered nucleic acids, imaging agents and active protein complexes. This means for generating nanoscale lipid bilayers has spawned the successful use of numerous other polymer and peptide amphipathic systems. This review, in celebration of the Anfinsen Award, summarizes some recent results and provides an inroad into the current and historical literature.

Indexed as

Models, MolecularLipid BilayersMembrane ProteinsNanostructuresProteomeLipid BilayersMembrane ProteinsProteomelipid bilayermembrane proteinNanodiscsignaling complex

Identifiers

PMID33165998
PMCPMC7784751
OpenAlexW3101530215

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