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Structure of Membrane Proteins Revealed by Electron Crystallography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

K. Mitsuoka
K. Mitsuoka*
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Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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Because membrane proteins are localized in a continuous lipid bilayer in the native environment, the situation of membrane proteins in the two-dimensional (2D) crystals is quite similar to the environment in vivo. Thus, electron crystallography using 2D crystals is one of the suitable techniques for structure determination of membrane proteins at atomic or near-atomic resolution. Here we describe the structures of the two membrane proteins, bacteriorhodopsin and aquaporin-1, which were solved by electron crystallography at 2.5 and 4.0 Å resolution, respectively.

Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is a light-driven proton pump found in Halobacterium salinarium. The atomic model of the protein was first proposed by electron crystallography and we improved the resolution of the structure determination up to 3.0 Å by collecting 366 electron diffraction patterns and 129 images. The resulted map showed not only a bR molecule but also eight surrounding lipids in the asymmetric unit.

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Electron Cryomicroscopy of Macromolecules
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 6 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2000, Microscopy Society of America 58th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 34th Annual Meeting, Microscopical Society of Canada/Societe de Microscopie de Canada 27th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 13-17, 2000 , August 2000 , pp. 234 - 235
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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