Exploring the in meso crystallization mechanism by characterizing the lipid mesophase microenvironment during the growth of single transmembrane α-helical peptide crystals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 374, Issue 2072, 2016, Pages

  T'Van Hag, Leonie ^a,b,c   Knoblich, Konstantin ^a,d   Seabrook, Shane A ^c   Kirby, Nigel M ^e   Mudie, Stephen T ^e   Lau, Deborah ^c   Li, Xu ^a,b   Gras, Sally L ^a,b   Mulet, Xavier ^c   Call, Matthew E ^a,d   Call, Melissa J ^a,d   Drummond, Calum J ^c,f   Conn, Charlotte E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

^f RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cubic mesophase; DAP12; In meso crystallization; Local lamellar phase

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; LAMELLAR STRUCTURES; PEPTIDES; PROTEINS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY SCATTERING;

CRYSTALLIZATION MECHANISMS; CUBIC MESOPHASES; DAP12; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LAMELLAR PHASE; STANDARD PROCEDURES; SYNCHROTRON SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERINGS; TRANS-MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 84974845852     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0125     Document Type: Article

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