Trewhella J, Popot J L, Zaccaï G, Engelman D M
EMBO J. 1986 Nov;5(11):3045-9. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1986.tb04604.x.
The structure of crystalline purple membrane reconstituted from purified bacteriorhodopsin (BR) chymotryptic fragments has been studied by neutron diffraction. In one of the samples studied, the fragment C-2, encompassing the first two predicted transmembrane segments, was prepared from deuterated purple membrane. The diffraction changes when the natural C-2 fragment is substituted by a deuterated one are analysed in terms of a seven-helix model for BR. The assignment of the labelled fragment to one end of the molecule placed new constraints on folding models for the protein.
通过中子衍射研究了由纯化的细菌视紫红质(BR)胰凝乳蛋白酶片段重构的结晶紫膜的结构。在研究的一个样品中,包含前两个预测跨膜片段的片段C-2是由氘代紫膜制备的。根据BR的七螺旋模型分析了天然C-2片段被氘代片段取代时的衍射变化。将标记片段定位到分子的一端,这对蛋白质的折叠模型提出了新的限制。