TCB Publications - Abstract

TCB Publications - Abstract

Daniel Kerr, Gregory T Tietjen, Zhiliang Gong, Emad Tajkhorshid, Erin J Adams, and Ka Yee C. Lee. Sensitivity of peripheral membrane proteins to the membrane context: A case study of phosphatidylserine and the TIM proteins. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, 1860:2126-2133, 2018. (PMC: PMC6290684)

KERR2018-ET There is a diverse class of peripheral membrane-binding proteins that specifically bind phosphatidylserine (PS), a lipid that signals apoptosis or cell fusion depending on the membrane context of its presentation. PS-receptors are specialized for particular PS-presenting pathways, indicating that they might be sensitive to the membrane context. In this review, we describe a combination of thermodynamic, structural, and computational techniques that can be used to investigate the mechanisms underlying this sensitivity. As an example, we focus on three PS-receptors of the T-cell Immunoglobulin and Mucin containing (TIM) protein family, which we have previously shown to differ in their sensitivity to PS surface density.

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