Ganglioside-embedding small bicelles for probing membrane-landing processes of intrinsically disordered proteins.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Institute for Molecular Science and Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan.

Published: February 2013

We successfully displayed a series of gangliosides on small bicelles with a uniform confined size, offering nanoscale standardized membrane mimics for spectroscopic characterization of weak encounter complexes formed between ganglioside clusters and amyloidogenic proteins. This enabled probing of initial membrane-landing processes of α-synuclein as a therapeutic target by NMR spectroscopy.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2cc38016aDOI Listing

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