Solid-state NMR and Membrane Proteins
 

Solid-state NMR and Membrane Proteins

Publication date: Available online 29 December 2014
Source:Journal of Magnetic Resonance</br>
Author(s): Stanley J. Opella</br>
The native environment for a membrane protein is a phospholipid bilayer. Because the protein is immobilized on NMR timescales by the interactions within a bilayer membrane, solid-state NMR methods are essential to obtain high-resolution spectra. Approaches have been developed for both unoriented and oriented samples, however, they all rest on the foundation of the most fundamental aspects solid-state NMR, and the chemical shift and homo- and hetero- nuclear dipole-dipole interactions. Solid-state NMR has advanced sufficiently to enable the structures of membrane proteins to be determined under near-native conditions in phospholipid bilayers.
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