Cover Picture: Secondary Structure, Dynamics, and Topology of a Seven-Helix Receptor in Native Membranes, Studied by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 3/2007)

✍ Scribed by Manuel Etzkorn; Swetlana Martell; Ovidiu C. Andronesi; Karsten Seidel; Martin Engelhard; Marc Baldus

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200690175

✦ Synopsis

Membrane proteins can now be studied in their native environments by using high‐resolution solid‐state NMR spectroscopy. Techniques that probe rigid, mobile, and water‐exposed protein segments provide insight into the membrane‐embedded structure of sensory rhodopsin II from Natronomonas pharaonis. The secondary structure, dynamics, and membrane topology of this seven‐helix receptor are discussed by M. Engelhard, M. Baldus, and co‐workers in their Communication on page 459 ff.