Structure and dynamics of a nanodisc by integrating NMR, SAXS and SANS experiments with molecular dynamics simulations
- University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Aarhus University, Denmark
Abstract
Nanodiscs are membrane mimetics that consist of a protein belt surrounding a lipid bilayer, and are broadly used for characterization of membrane proteins. Here, we investigate the structure, dynamics and biophysical properties of two small nanodiscs, MSP1D1ΔH5 and ΔH4H5. We combine our SAXS and SANS experiments with molecular dynamics simulations and previously obtained NMR and EPR data to derive and validate a conformational ensemble that represents the structure and dynamics of the nanodisc. We find that it displays conformational heterogeneity with various elliptical shapes, and with substantial differences in lipid ordering in the centre and rim of the discs. Together, our results reconcile previous apparently conflicting observations about the shape of nanodiscs, and paves the way for future integrative studies of larger complex systems such as membrane proteins embedded in nanodiscs.
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Scattering data, molecular simulations and results from reweighting are available at https://github.com/KULL-Centre/papers/tree/master/2020/nanodisc-bengtsen-et-al
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Author details
Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
Funding
Danish Council for Independent Researtch
- Birgit Schiøtt
Lundbeckfonden (BRAINSTRUC)
- Lise Arleth
- Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
Novo Nordisk Foundation (Hallas-Møller Stipend)
- Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
Villum Fonden (Block grant)
- Sandro Bottaro
- Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Reviewing Editor
- Lucie Delemotte, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Version history
- Received: March 1, 2020
- Accepted: July 28, 2020
- Accepted Manuscript published: July 30, 2020 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: August 13, 2020 (version 2)
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© 2020, Bengtsen et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Structure and dynamics of a nanodisc by integrating NMR, SAXS and SANS experiments with molecular dynamics simulations
eLife 9:e56518.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.56518
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