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Structural Analysis of Anesthetics in Complex with Soluble Proteins
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Structural Analysis of Anesthetics in Complex with Soluble Proteins

Patrick J Loll
Methods in enzymology, v 603, pp 3-20
2018
PMID: 29673532

Abstract

Anesthetics, Inhalation - chemistry Anesthetics, Intravenous - chemistry Animals Apoferritins - chemistry Apoferritins - isolation & purification Binding Sites Crystallization - instrumentation Crystallization - methods Crystallography, X-Ray Horses Humans Isoflurane - chemistry Polyethylene Glycols - chemistry Propofol - chemistry Protein Binding Solubility Spleen - chemistry
Anesthetics interact with a broad range of different targets, including both soluble and membrane-bound proteins. Understanding these interactions at the molecular level requires detailed structural knowledge of anesthetic-protein complexes, and one of the most productive routes to such knowledge is X-ray crystallography. In this chapter we discuss the application of this technique to the analysis of complexes of anesthetics with soluble proteins. The model protein apoferritin is highlighted, and protocols are presented for obtaining diffraction-quality crystals of this protein in complex with different general anesthetics.

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