Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

PoreDesigner for tuning solute selectivity in a robust and highly permeable outer membrane pore

  • Ratul Chowdhury,
  • Tingwei Ren,
  • Manish Shankla,
  • Karl Decker,
  • Matthew Grisewood,
  • Jeevan Prabhakar,
  • Carol Baker,
  • John H. Golbeck,
  • Aleksei Aksimentiev,
  • Manish Kumar,
  • Costas D. Maranas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06097-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Monodisperse angstrom-sized membrane proteins, found in biological membranes, are difficult to implement in synthetic industrial membranes. Here authors present a pore design procedure, to redesign the robust beta-barrel Outer Membrane Protein F (OmpF) with specific solute selectivity.