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Probing membrane transport protein-ligand complexes by use of residual dipolar and quadrupolar couplings

ReferenceB12993
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Steve Homans
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Professor Peter Henderson, Dr R Herbert
Institution University of Leeds
DepartmentInst of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 235,276
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/04/2000
End date 01/07/2003
Duration39 months

Abstract

The structure determination of integral membrane protein-ligand complexes remains one of the great challenges of contemporary structural biology. Conventional solution NMR methods will generally fail in this context due to the large molecular sizes of the complexes. Here, a novel NMR approach is described based on residual dipolar and quadrupolar couplings in dilute liquid crystalline media that should enable the study of ligand binding to membrane transport proteins in a lipid bilayer environment. To the best of our knowledge these studies will represent an unique development in the UK.

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Committee Closed Committee - Biomolecular Sciences (BMS)
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