Mitochondrial Transmembrane β-Barrels: Deducing Thermodynamic Regulators of Folding and Stability
摘要
Biophysical characterization of membrane protein folding and stability provides a direct molecular correlation of folding and stability with protein function. Here, we describe how mitochondrial outer membrane β-barrels can be overproduced, and how structures of folding intermediates and per-residue thermodynamic stability are measured using intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence in near-native membranes.