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2185831

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-6-14
pubmed:abstractText
By use of techniques described recently for lac permease [Roepe, P.D., & Kaback, H.R. (1989) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86, 6087], the melibiose permease from Escherichia coli, another polytopic integral plasma membrane protein, has been purified in a metastable soluble form after overexpression of the melB gene via the T7 RNA polymerase system. As demonstrated with lac permease, soluble melibiose permease is dissociated from the membrane with 5.0 M urea and appears to remain soluble in phosphate buffer at neutral pH after removal of urea by dialysis, although the protein aggregates in a time- and concentration-dependent fashion. Moreover, soluble melibiose permease behaves as a monomer during purification by size exclusion chromatography in the presence of urea. Circular dichroism of purified soluble melibiose permease reveals that the protein is highly helical in potassium phosphate buffer and that secondary structure is disrupted in 5.0 M urea. Finally, purified melibiose permease can be reconstituted into proteoliposomes, and the preparations catalyze membrane potential driven H+/melibiose or Na+/methyl 1-thio-beta,D-galactopyranoside symport. The results provide further support for the notion that hydrophobic transmembrane proteins may be able to assume a nondenatured conformation in aqueous solution and extend the implication that the approach described may represent a general method for rapid isolation and reconstitution of this class of membrane proteins.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0006-2960
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
29
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2572-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Isolation and functional reconstitution of soluble melibiose permease from Escherichia coli.
pubmed:affiliation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-1574.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't