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ArticleJournal of molecular biology2021

MPBuilder: A PyMOL Plugin for Building and Refinement of Solubilized Membrane Proteins Against Small Angle X-ray Scattering Data.

D S Molodenskiy, D I Svergun, H D T Mertens

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Article in Journal of molecular biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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D S MolodenskiyEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg Outstation, EMBL c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: DMolodenskiy@EMBL-Hamburg.DE.
D I SvergunEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg Outstation, EMBL c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: Svergun@EMBL-Hamburg.DE.
H D T MertensEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg Outstation, EMBL c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: Mertens@EMBL-Hamburg.DE.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membrane proteins (MPs) are the target of numerous structural and functional studies in biological and medical/pharmaceutical sciences. Strategies for the high-throughput structural analysis of MPs and of their perturbations driven by ligands having potential therapeutic applications are uncommon, often requiring scaled up crystallization, electron microscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) efforts. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) provides a rapid means to study low resolution structures and conformational changes of native MPs in solution without cumbersome sample preparations/treatment. The method requires the MPs solubilized in an appropriate medium (eg. detergents, mixed micelles and nanodiscs) and reliable and robust models are needed to describe the relevant complexes. Here we present MPBuilder, a simple and versatile tool for the generation and refinement of all-atom MP systems in the popular software PyMOL, an environment familiar to most biologists. MPBuilder provides building capability for protein-detergent, bicelle, and lipid-scaffold (saposin nanoparticles, nanodiscs) complexes and links this to the ATSAS software package modules for model refinement and validation against the SAXS data.

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Scattering, Small AngleSoftwareX-Ray DiffractionAquaporinsComputer SimulationDetergentsLipidsMembrane ProteinsSolubilityAquaporinsDetergentsLipidsMembrane Proteinsbicellemicellenanodiscsalipro(r)SAXS

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PMID33631193
PMCPMC8135126

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