Biophysical Journal 72: 2545-2558 (1997)
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How to make tubular crystals by reconstitution of detergent-solubilized Ca2(+)-ATPase.

Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016, USA.

ABSTRACT

In an attempt to better define the parameters governing reconstitution and two-dimensional crystallization of membrane proteins, we have studied Ca2(+)-ATPase from rabbit sarcoplasmic reticulum. This ion pump forms vanadate-induced crystals in its native membrane and has previously been reconstituted at high lipid-to-protein ratios for functional studies. We have characterized the reconstitution of purified Ca2(+)-ATPase at low lipid-to-protein ratios and discovered procedures that produce long, tubular crystals suitable for helical reconstruction. C12E8 (n-dodecyl-octaethylene-glycol monoether) was used to fully solubilize various mixtures of lipid and purified Ca2(+)-ATPase, and BioBeads were then used to remove the C12E8. Slow removal resulted in two populations of vesicles, and the proteoliposome population was separated from the liposome population on a sucrose density gradient. These proteoliposomes had a lipid-to-protein ratio of 1:2, and virtually 100% of molecules faced the outside of vesicles, as determined by fluorescein isothiocyanate labeling. Cycles of freeze-thaw caused considerable aggregation of these proteoliposomes, and, if phosphatidyl ethanolamine and phosphatidic acid were included, or if the bilayers were doped with small amounts of C12E8, vanadate-induced tubular crystals grew from the aggregates. Thus our procedure comprised two steps-reconstitution followed by crystallization-allowing us to consider mechanisms of bilayer formation separately from those of crystallization and tube formation.

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