Self-Assembly of Polymer-Encased Lipid Nanodiscs and Membrane Protein Reconstitution

Overview

Journal J Phys Chem B

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2019 May 4

PMID 31050900

Citations 12

Authors

Bikash R Sahoo

Takuya Genjo

Kanhu C Moharana

Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy

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Abstract

The absence of detergent and curvature makes nanodiscs excellent membrane mimetics. The lack of structural and mechanistic model of polymer-encapsulated lipid nanodiscs limits their use in the study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of membrane proteins. In this study, we parameterized and optimized the coarse-graining (CG) bead mapping for two differently charged and functionalized copolymers, containing styrene-maleic acid (SMAEA) and polymethacrylate (PMAQA), for the Martini force-field framework and showed nanodisc formation (<8 nm diameter) on a time scale of tens of microseconds using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Structural models of ∼2.0 or 4.8 kDa PMAQA and ∼2.2 kDa SMAEA polymer-based lipid nanodiscs highlight the importance of the polymer chemical structure, size, and polymer-lipid ratio in the optimization of the nanodisc structure. The ideal spatial arrangement of polymers in nanodiscs, nanodisc size, and thermal stability obtained from our MD simulation correlates well with the experimental observations. The polymer-nanodiscs were tested for the reconstitution of single-pass or multipass transmembrane proteins. We expect this study to be useful in the development of novel polymer-based lipid nanodiscs and for the structural studies of membrane proteins.

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