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The Planar Distributions of Surface Proteins and Intramembrane Particles in Acholeplasma Laidlawii Are Differentially Affected by the Physical State of Membrane Lipids

The Planar Distributions of Surface Proteins and Intramembrane Particles in Acholeplasma Laidlawii Are Differentially Affected by the Physical State of Membrane Lipids

B A Wallace, D M Engelman

Biochim Biophys Acta. 1978 Apr 20;508(3):431-49.

PMID: 638151

Abstract:

We have studied the influence of changes in lipid organization on the planar distribution of two classes of membrane proteins: integral proteins which have amino groups exposed to labelling at the membrane surface by the biotinavidin-ferritin procedure, and those proteins which penetrate the lipid bilayer sufficiently to be seen as intramembranous particles by freeze-fracture electron-microscopy. When the membranes are examined at temperatures below the lipid phase transition, the first class is dispersed and the second patched. At temperatures in the middle of the transition range, both classes are patched. At temperatures just above the phase transition the first class is dispersed and the second patched, and at temperatures well above the transition both classes are dispersed. Freeze-etch studies of avidin-ferritin-labeled membranes confirmed that the distribution seen by the labeling and the freeze-fracture techniques coexist in single membranes. Thus, there exist two distinct classes of membrane proteins with differential organizational responses to the lipid state.

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IAR42411637	Avidin-ferritin labeled			Price

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