The appropriate lipid environment is crucial for the proper function of membrane proteins. There is a tremendous variety of lipid molecules in the membrane and so far it is often unclear which component of the lipid matrix is essential for the function of a respective protein. Lipid molecules and proteins mutually influence each other; parameters such as acyl chain order, membrane thickness, membrane elasticity, permeability, lipid-domain and annulus formation are strongly modulated by proteins. More recent data also indicates that the influence of proteins goes beyond a single annulus of next-neighbor boundary lipids. Therefore, a mesoscopic approach to membrane lipid-protein interactions in terms of elastic membrane deformations has been developed. Solid-state NMR has greatly
contributed to the understanding of lipid-protein interactions and the modern view of biological membranes. Methods that detect the influence of proteins on the membrane as well as direct lipid-protein interactions have been developed and are reviewed here. Examples for solid-state NMR studies on the interaction of Ras proteins, the antimicrobial peptide protegrin-1, the G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin, and the K+ channel KcsA are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:15-qucosa-190961 |
| Date | 07 December 2015 |
| Creators | Huster, Daniel |
| Contributors | Universität Leipzig, Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik |
| Publisher | Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Biochimica et biophysica acta : Molecular and cell biology of lipids (2014), Aug, 1841(8):1146-1160 |
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