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8 The 18A peptide was first introduced by Segrest et al. We have therefore previously investigated nanodiscs with repeated, unlinked peptide units as a possible alternative to MSP, and showed that the amphipathic peptide, 18A, self-assembles with DMPC to form well-defined peptide nanodiscs with a diameter of about 100 Г…, which can stabilize the seven-helix transmembrane protein bacteriorhodopsin well. However, reconstitution of membrane proteins in MSP nanodiscs is challenging from a sample handling point of view, and the system has limited flexibility with respect to the size of the membrane proteins that can be incorporated due to the fixed size of the MSP belt. 7 This is essential for structural studies such as small-angle scattering and single particle electron microscopy. 5,6 MSP nanodiscs stabilize membrane proteins well and are highly homogeneous from a structural point of view. The conventional nanodisc system is composed of a lipid bilayer, with the hydrophobic side screened by a double belt consisting of two amphiphilic membrane scaffolding proteins (MSPs) derived from human apoA1. 5 In the present study we investigate a new type of nanodisc system based on dimers of the peptide 18A with different interhelical linkers. This has motivated many studies on different reconstitution systems, from detergent micelles and amphipols 2 to membrane mimicking systems such as liposomes, bicelles, 3 SMALPs 4 and nanodiscs. One reason is that membrane proteins rely strongly on a native-like amphiphilic environment to be stable, functional and accessible by crystallization for high-resolution diffraction experiments. 1 However, only 1вЂ“2% of the known protein structures in the Protein Data Bank are from membrane proteins. Introduction Membrane proteins have attracted great pharmaceutical interest since they are the specific targets of more than 50% of all drugs. We conclude that adaptability, size, and structural stability can be tuned by changing the interhelical linker while maintaining the properties of the discs with respect to membrane protein stabilization. With respect to membrane protein stabilization, each of the three beltides in combination with DMPC stabilizes the seven-helix transmembrane protein bacteriorhodopsin significantly better than the detergent octyl glucoside, but no significant difference was observed between the three beltides. SLS revealed that the structural stability of the formed peptide nanodiscs was also highly affected by the linkers and it was found that Beltide-1 gave more stable discs than the other two beltides.

#Winchester model 25 12 gauge made in 1952 pro#

On the other hand, both Beltide-2 with the Pro linker and Beltide-1 without a linker were less adaptable and would only form discs of certain peptide to lipid stoichiometries.

Beltide-3, with the GlyвЂ“Gly linker, was very adaptable such that peptide nanodiscs could be formed for a broad range of different peptide to lipid stoichiometries and therefore also possible disc-sizes. However, as shown by SEC the different interhelical linkers clearly led to different properties of the beltides.

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CD confirmed that all three beltides were О±-helical in the free form and with DMPC. For all three beltides, MD and combined small-angle X-ray and -neutron scattering were consistent with a disc structure composed by a phospholipid bilayer surrounded by a belt of peptides and with a total disc diameter of approximately 10 nm.

The self-assembly of the beltides with the phospholipid DMPC was studied with and without the incorporated membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin (bR) through a combination of coarse-grained MD simulations, size-exclusion chromatography (SEC), circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, small-angle scattering (SAS), static light scattering (SLS) and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The dimeric peptides were denoted вЂbeltidesвЂ™ where Beltide-1 refers to the 18A-dimer without a linker, Beltide-2 is the 18A-dimer with proline (Pro) as a linker and Beltide-3 is the 18A-dimer linked by two glycines (GlyвЂ“Gly). Three dimers of the amphipathic О±-helical peptide 18A have been synthesized with different interhelical linkers inserted between the two copies of 18A.