Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Elife. 2018 Aug 15;7:e34085. doi: 10.7554/eLife.34085.
Membrane proteins are difficult to work with due to their insolubility in aqueous solution and quite often their poor stability in detergent micelles. Here, we present the peptidisc for their facile capture into water-soluble particles. Unlike the nanodisc, which requires scaffold proteins of different lengths and precise amounts of matching lipids, reconstitution of detergent solubilized proteins in peptidisc only requires a short amphipathic bi-helical peptide (NSP) and no extra lipids. Multiple copies of the peptide wrap around to shield the membrane-exposed part of the target protein. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this 'one size fits all' method using five different membrane protein assemblies (MalFGK, FhuA, SecYEG, OmpF, BRC) during 'on-column', 'in-gel', and 'on-bead' reconstitution embedded within the membrane protein purification protocol. The peptidisc method is rapid and cost-effective, and it may emerge as a universal tool for high-throughput stabilization of membrane proteins to advance modern biological studies.
膜蛋白由于其在水溶液中的不溶性以及在去污剂胶束中常常较差的稳定性,因此很难处理。在这里,我们提出了肽盘用于将其轻松捕获到水溶性颗粒中。与需要不同长度的支架蛋白和精确匹配的脂质量的纳米盘不同,在肽盘中重新构建去污剂溶解的蛋白质仅需要短的两亲性双螺旋肽(NSP),而不需要额外的脂质。多个肽拷贝围绕以屏蔽目标蛋白的膜暴露部分。我们使用五种不同的膜蛋白组装体(MalFGK、FhuA、SecYEG、OmpF、BRC)在“柱上”、“凝胶内”和“珠上”重建过程中证明了这种“一刀切”方法的有效性,这些组装体嵌入在膜蛋白纯化方案中。肽盘方法快速且具有成本效益,它可能成为高通量稳定膜蛋白的通用工具,以推进现代生物学研究。