Effect of protein steric constraints on the symmetry of membrane protein polyhedra.

Physical Review. E
Mingyuan Ma, Christoph A Haselwandter

Abstract

Experiments have shown that, in an aqueous environment, lipids and membrane proteins can self-assemble into membrane protein polyhedral nanoparticles (MPPNs). MPPNs are closed, spherical vesicles composed of a lipid bilayer membrane and membrane proteins, with a polyhedral arrangement of membrane proteins. The observed symmetry and size of MPPNs can be understood from the interplay of protein-induced lipid bilayer deformations in MPPNs, topological defects in protein packing necessitated by the spherical shape of MPPNs, and thermal fluctuations in MPPN self-assembly. We explore here the effect of protein steric constraints on MPPN shape. The protein steric constraints considered here may arise from a well-defined shape of protein domains outside the membrane, entropic repulsion between membrane proteins with flexible domains outside the membrane, or binding of other molecules to membrane proteins. Calculating MPPN self-assembly diagrams under protein steric constraints we find that protein steric constraints can strongly affect MPPN self-assembly. Depending on the specific scenario considered, protein steric constraints can leave large portions of the MPPN self-assembly diagrams with no clearly defined MPPN symmetry or substant...Continue Reading

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