The packing of lipid chains changes the character of bacteriorhodopsin reconstituted in a model membrane

✍ Scribed by Hirotaka Sasaki; Mayumi Araki; Seketsu Fukuzawa; Kazuo Tachibana

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 131 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-894X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(03)00736-4

✦ Synopsis

The packing of lipid chains in bicelles was 5-9% less than that in mixed micelles at temperatures between 298 and 318 K. This reduction of packing that accompanied the formation of bicelles changed the spectroscopic character of reconstituted bacteriorhodopsin, as indicated by static absorption measurements.