High-pressure crystallography shows noble gas intervention into protein-lipid interaction and suggests a model for anaesthetic action

Autor: Igor Melnikov, Philipp Orekhov, Maksim Rulev, Kirill Kovalev, Roman Astashkin, Dmitriy Bratanov, Yury Ryzhykau, Taras Balandin, Sergei Bukhdruker, Ivan Okhrimenko, Valentin Borshchevskiy, Gleb Bourenkov, Christoph Mueller-Dieckmann, Peter van der Linden, Philippe Carpentier, Gordon Leonard, Valentin Gordeliy, Alexander Popov
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Communications Biology, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3642
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03233-y
Popis: Noble gases are known to interact with proteins and can be good anaesthetics in hyperbaric conditions. This study identifies argon and krypton binding sites on membrane proteins and proposes as a hypothesis that noble gases, by altering protein/lipid contacts, may affect protein function.
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