Biophysical Journal 63: 418-427 (1992)
© 1992 the Biophysical Society

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Classification of projection images of crystalline arrays of the mitochondrial, voltage-dependent anion-selective channel embedded in aurothioglucose.

Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany 12201-0509.

ABSTRACT

Low-dose electron microscopic images have been recorded from membrane crystals of the mitochondrial, voltage-dependent anion-selective channel, embedded in aurothioglucose. There is considerable variation in the high-resolution detail present in correlation averages computed from these images. Correspondence analysis reveals three classes of "control" averages, with main components of variation involving projected size of the pores and density modulations around the pores and in the corners of the unit cells away from the pores. Pretreatments that affect the functional state of the channel also affect the array averages. In particular, there appears to be a general correlation between the expected effector-induced state (i.e., open and closed) and the projected diameter of the channel lumens in the crystalline arrays.

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