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Nanodiscs: A Novel Approach To The Study Of The Methionine Abc Transporter System, Michael T. Winslow
Nanodiscs: A Novel Approach To The Study Of The Methionine Abc Transporter System, Michael T. Winslow
Master's Theses
Membrane transporter proteins play the vital role of moving compounds in and out of the cell and are essential for all living organisms. ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) family transporters function both as importers and exporters in prokaryotes. MetNI is an E. coli Type I ABC transporter responsible for the uptake of methionine into the cytosol from the cell periplasmic space through the cell membrane to maintain intracellular methionine pools. ABC transporters, like other membrane proteins, are most often mechanistically and structurally studied in vitro, solubilized by detergents. However, detergent micelles may affect the conformational changes of membrane proteins relative to …