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Indra D Sahu1, Gary A Lorigan1.
Abstract
Membrane proteins are very important in controlling bioenergetics, functional activity, and initializing signal pathways in a wide variety of complicated biological systems. They also represent approximately 50% of the potential drug targets. EPR spectroscopy is a very popular and powerful biophysical tool that is used to study the structural and dynamic properties of membrane proteins. In this article, a basic overview of the most commonly used EPR techniques and examples of recent applications to answer pertinent structural and dynamic related questions on membrane protein systems will be presented.Entities:
Keywords: DEER; Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; Membrane proteins; Site-directed spin labeling; Structural topology and dynamics
Year: 2015 PMID: 26855825 PMCID: PMC4742357 DOI: 10.4172/2161-0398.1000188
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Phys Chem Biophys