Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Allosteric modulation of protein-protein interactions by individual lipid binding events

  • Xiao Cong,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Wen Liu,
  • Xiaowen Liang,
  • Arthur Laganowsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02397-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Native mass spectrometry (MS) is a technique that preserves non-covalent interactions in the mass spectrometer. Here the authors use native MS to study integral membrane proteins, and find that lipids with different headgroups and tails can allosterically modulate protein-protein interactions in different fashions.