Chapter 10 - Structural and functional studies of membrane remodeling machines
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Introduction to Membrane Remodeling
Chemical compartmentalization was as critical in the evolution of life as was the realization of self-replicating molecules. Robert Hooke's use of the metaphorical “cell” draws our attention to the inhabitants of the “small rooms” he observed with his microscope, but also to the walls that outline a room, distinguish it from its neighbors, and segregate inside from outside activities (Hooke, 1665). Boundaries—and the cells that the boundaries define—arose when amphipathic molecules formed
BAR domain-containing protein overexpression in E. coli
This protocol is specifically adapted to express full-length and GST-tagged EndophilinA1 protein utilizing the pGEX6p1 expression vector (Mim et al., 2012). Alternative expression plasmids will also express other BAR domain-containing proteins. It is important to adapt this protocol to ensure that your expression vector and bacterial strain have been selected for the correct media and expression conditions.
Perspective
This chapter has focused on biochemical methods for purifying and reconstituting membrane remodeling factors for visualization by electron microscopy, rather than on subsequent image analysis and structure determination methods. In many ways, the rate-determining step in studying membrane remodeling phenomena is the biochemical reconstitution of the activity being investigated. Once purification and reconstitution are accomplished, modern electron microscopy and image analysis will almost
Acknowledgments
Electron microscopy was performed at the University of Utah and the University of California. We thank David Belnap (Utah) and Michael Braunfeld (UCSF) for supervision of the electron microscopes. We thank Anita Orendt and the Utah Center for High Performance Computing and the NSF XSEDE consortium for computational support. We thank Aurelien Roux (University of Geneva), Pietro De Camilli (Yale University), and Janet Shaw (University of Utah) for sharing reagents and for critical discussions.
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