TY - JOUR
AU - Glueck, David
AU - Grethen, Anne
AU - Das, Manabendra
AU - Mmeka, Ogochukwu Patricia
AU - Patallo, Eugenio Pérez
AU - Meister, Annette
AU - Rajender, Ritu
AU - Kins, Stefan
AU - Räschle, Markus
AU - Victor, Julian
AU - Chu, Ci
AU - Etzkorn, Manuel
AU - Köck, Zoe
AU - Bernhard, Frank
AU - Babalola, Jonathan Oyebamiji
AU - Vargas, Carolyn
AU - Keller, Sandro
TI - Electroneutral Polymer Nanodiscs Enable Interference‐Free Probing of Membrane Proteins in a Lipid‐Bilayer Environment
JO - Small
VL - 18
IS - 47
SN - 1613-6810
CY - Weinheim
PB - Wiley-VCH
M1 - FZJ-2023-03929
SP - 2202492
PY - 2022
AB - Membrane proteins can be examined in near-native lipid-bilayer environments with the advent of polymer-encapsulated nanodiscs. These nanodiscs self-assemble directly from cellular membranes, allowing in vitro probing of membrane proteins with techniques that have previously been restricted to soluble or detergent-solubilized proteins. Often, however, the high charge densities of existing polymers obstruct bioanalytical and preparative techniques. Thus, the authors aim to fabricate electroneutral—yet water-soluble—polymer nanodiscs. By attaching a sulfobetaine group to the commercial polymers DIBMA and SMA(2:1), these polyanionic polymers are converted to the electroneutral maleimide derivatives, Sulfo-DIBMA and Sulfo-SMA(2:1). Sulfo-DIBMA and Sulfo-SMA(2:1) readily extract proteins and phospholipids from artificial and cellular membranes to form nanodiscs. Crucially, the electroneutral nanodiscs avert unspecific interactions, thereby enabling new insights into protein–lipid interactions through lab-on-a-chip detection and in vitro translation of membrane proteins. Finally, the authors create a library comprising thousands of human membrane proteins and use proteome profiling by mass spectrometry to show that protein complexes are preserved in electroneutral nanodiscs.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6 - 36228092
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000867936900001
DO - DOI:10.1002/smll.202202492
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1017087
ER -