Membrane Proteins: Folding, Association, and Design

Book Overview

Part I: Association of Transmembrane Helices

1. Use of Thiol-Disulfide Exchange Method to Study Transmembrane Peptide Association in Membrane Environments

Lidia Cristian and Yao Zhang

2. Measurement of Transmembrane Peptide Interactions in Liposomes Using F?rster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)

Ambalika Khadria and Alessandro Senes

3. Measuring Transmembrane Helix Interaction Strengths in Lipid Bilayers Using Steric Trapping

Heedeok Hong, Yu-Chu Chang, and James U. Bowie

4. Genetics Systems for Monitoring Interactions of Transmembrane Domains in Bacterial Membranes

Lydia Tome, Dominik Steindorf, and Dirk Schneider

Part II: Interactions with the Lipid Bilayer

5. Analyzing the Effects of Hydrophobic Mismatch on Transmembrane α-Helices Using Tryptophan Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Gregory A. Caputo

6. Folding Alpha Helical Membrane Proteins into Liposomes In Vitro and Determination of Secondary Structure

Heather E. Findlay and Paula J. Booth

7. Solvation Models and Computational Prediction of Orientations of Peptides and Proteins in Membranes

Andrei L. Lomize and Irina D. Pogozheva

Part III: NMR Methods

8. Membrane Protein Structure Determination: Back to the Membrane

Yong Yao, Yi Ding, Ye Tian, Stanley J. Opella, and Francesca M. Marassi

9. On the Role of NMR Spectroscopy for Characterization of Antimicrobial Peptides

Fernando Porcelli, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, George Barany, and Gianluigi Veglia

Part IV: Engineering Approaches

10. Prediction and Design of Outer Membrane Protein-Protein Interactions

Vikas Nanda, Daniel Hsieh, and Alexander Davis

11. Design of Transmembrane Peptides: Coping with Sticky Situations

Arianna Rath and Charles M. Deber

12. Engineering and Utilization of Reporter Cell Lines for Cell-Based Assays of Transmembrane Receptors

Matthew W. Lluis and Hang Yin

13. Fluorination in the Design of Membrane Protein Assemblies

Vijay M. Krishnamurthy and Krishna Kumar

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493960210
• ISBN13: 9781493960217
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"