ReviewBiochemical Society transactions2021
Biological insights from SMA-extracted proteins.
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- A comparison of the effect of SMA derivatives on the structural topology and dynamics of two bacteriophage peptides.Chemistry and physics of lipids · 2026Article
- RePol: A high-throughput screen for optimizing membrane protein solubilization and purification using polymers.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026Article
- Detergent exchange from lipid nanoparticles into detergent micelles unlocks a tool for biochemical and kinetic characterization of membrane proteins.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- pH-tunable membrane-active polymers, NCMNP2a-Chemical science · 2023Article
- Recent advances in membrane mimetics for membrane protein research.Biochemical Society transactions · 2023Review
- The Myth of The Annular Lipids.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Small angle neutron scattering and lipidomic analysis of a native, trimeric PSI-SMALP from a thermophilic cyanobacteria.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics · 2022Article
- The function of BK channels extracted and purified within SMALPs.The Biochemical journal · 2022Article
- Biophysical Characterization of Membrane Proteins Embedded in Nanodiscs Using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.Membranes · 2022Review
- Signaling Mechanisms and Pharmacological Modulators Governing Diverse Aquaporin Functions in Human Health and Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Detergent-Free Membrane Protein Purification Using SMA Polymer.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Membrane protein extraction and purification using partially-esterified SMA polymers.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes · 2021Article
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Abstract
In the twelve years since styrene maleic acid (SMA) was first used to extract and purify a membrane protein within a native lipid bilayer, this technological breakthrough has provided insight into the structural and functional details of protein-lipid interactions. Most recently, advances in cryo-EM have demonstrated that SMA-extracted membrane proteins are a rich-source of structural data. For example, it has been possible to resolve the details of annular lipids and protein-protein interactions within complexes, the nature of lipids within central cavities and binding pockets, regions involved in stabilising multimers, details of terminal residues that would otherwise remain unresolved and the identification of physiologically relevant states. Functionally, SMA extraction has allowed the analysis of membrane proteins that are unstable in detergents, the characterization of an ultrafast component in the kinetics of electron transfer that was not possible in detergent-solubilised samples and quantitative, real-time measurement of binding assays with low concentrations of purified protein. While the use of SMA comes with limitations such as its sensitivity to low pH and divalent cations, its major advantage is maintenance of a protein's lipid bilayer. This has enabled researchers to view and assay proteins in an environment close to their native ones, leading to new structural and mechanistic insights.
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