Sahu Indra D, Lorigan Gary A
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, United States of America.
J Phys Chem Biophys. 2015;5(6). doi: 10.4172/2161-0398.1000188. Epub 2015 Oct 15.
Membrane proteins are very important in controlling bioenergetics, functional activity, and initializing signal pathways in a wide variety of complicated biological systems. They also represent approximately 50% of the potential drug targets. EPR spectroscopy is a very popular and powerful biophysical tool that is used to study the structural and dynamic properties of membrane proteins. In this article, a basic overview of the most commonly used EPR techniques and examples of recent applications to answer pertinent structural and dynamic related questions on membrane protein systems will be presented.
膜蛋白在控制生物能量学、功能活性以及启动各种复杂生物系统中的信号通路方面非常重要。它们还约占潜在药物靶点的50%。电子顺磁共振光谱是一种非常流行且强大的生物物理工具,用于研究膜蛋白的结构和动力学特性。本文将对最常用的电子顺磁共振技术进行基本概述,并给出近期应用实例,以解答有关膜蛋白系统的相关结构和动力学问题。