A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel.
The fabrication of monodisperse transmembrane barrels formed from short synthetic peptides has not been demonstrated previously. This is in part because of the complexity of the interactions between peptides and lipids within the hydrophobic environment of a membrane. Here we report the formation of...
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| author | Mahendran, K Niitsu, A Kong, L Thomson, A Sessions, R Woolfson, D Bayley, J |
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| description | The fabrication of monodisperse transmembrane barrels formed from short synthetic peptides has not been demonstrated previously. This is in part because of the complexity of the interactions between peptides and lipids within the hydrophobic environment of a membrane. Here we report the formation of a transmembrane pore through the self-assembly of 35 amino acid α-helical peptides. The design of the peptides is based on the C-terminal D4 domain of the Escherichia coli polysaccharide transporter Wza. By using single-channel current recording, we define discrete assembly intermediates and show that the pore is most probably a helix barrel that contains eight D4 peptides arranged in parallel. We also show that the peptide pore is functional and capable of conducting ions and binding blockers. Such α-helix barrels engineered from peptides could find applications in nanopore technologies such as single-molecule sensing and nucleic-acid sequencing. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a72471f3-0aa4-4ecd-9e3f-cddb91f35f6b2022-03-27T02:52:36ZA monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a72471f3-0aa4-4ecd-9e3f-cddb91f35f6bEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordNature Publishing Group2016Mahendran, KNiitsu, AKong, LThomson, ASessions, RWoolfson, DBayley, JThe fabrication of monodisperse transmembrane barrels formed from short synthetic peptides has not been demonstrated previously. This is in part because of the complexity of the interactions between peptides and lipids within the hydrophobic environment of a membrane. Here we report the formation of a transmembrane pore through the self-assembly of 35 amino acid α-helical peptides. The design of the peptides is based on the C-terminal D4 domain of the Escherichia coli polysaccharide transporter Wza. By using single-channel current recording, we define discrete assembly intermediates and show that the pore is most probably a helix barrel that contains eight D4 peptides arranged in parallel. We also show that the peptide pore is functional and capable of conducting ions and binding blockers. Such α-helix barrels engineered from peptides could find applications in nanopore technologies such as single-molecule sensing and nucleic-acid sequencing. |
| spellingShingle | Mahendran, K Niitsu, A Kong, L Thomson, A Sessions, R Woolfson, D Bayley, J A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel. |
| title | A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel. |
| title_full | A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel. |
| title_fullStr | A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel. |
| title_full_unstemmed | A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel. |
| title_short | A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel. |
| title_sort | monodisperse transmembrane α helical peptide barrel |
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