Title
Rapid preparation of nanodiscs for biophysical studies
Date Issued
15 November 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Julien J.A.
Fernandez M.G.
Brandmier K.M.
Del Mundo J.T.
Bator C.M.
Loftus L.A.
Gomez E.W.
Glover K.J.
The Pennsylvania State University
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
Nanodiscs, which are disc-shaped entities that contain a central lipid bilayer encased by an annulus of amphipathic helices, have emerged as a leading native-like membrane mimic. The current approach for the formation of nanodiscs involves the creation of a mixed-micellar solution containing membrane scaffold protein, lipid, and detergent followed by a time consuming process (3–12 h) of dialysis and/or incubation with sorptive beads to remove the detergent molecules from the sample. In contrast, the methodology described herein provides a facile and rapid procedure for the preparation of nanodiscs in a matter of minutes (<15 min) using Sephadex® G-25 resin to remove the detergent from the sample. A panoply of biophysical techniques including analytical ultracentrifugation, dynamic light scattering, gel filtration chromatography, circular dichroism spectroscopy, and cryogenic electron microscopy were employed to unequivocally confirm that aggregates formed by this method are indeed nanodiscs. We believe that this method will be attractive for time-sensitive and high-throughput experiments.
Volume
712
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química física
Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85116335024
PubMed ID
Source
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
ISSN of the container
00039861
Sponsor(s)
We thank Thomas Perone and Marvens Jean for laboratory assistance and Soohyung Park for preparing Fig. 1 . We thank Jennie Cawley for assistance in processing electron microscopy images in ImageJ. The authors sincerely thank Dr. Hyunwook Lee for useful advice and expertise concerning the cryo-EM experiments. Fig. 2 was created using BioRender.com . This work was supported by NIH R15 GM141606-01 awarded to K.J.G. J.D.M., E.W.G., and E.D.G. acknowledge support from the Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy , Office of Science , Basic Energy Sciences under award no. DE-SC0001090 .
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