NR study of binding of short antimicrobial alpha-helix peptides with model lipid monolayer at the air/water interface

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In this work we explore how our rationally designed peptide amphiphiles bind onto lipid monolayers using neutron reflection combined with deuterium labelling to the lipids, peptides and water. In the home work so far, we have developed lipid monolayer models mimicking mammalian and bacteria (G-, G+) outer cell membranes. To start this part of study, we propose to study how the G4 peptide bind to single and binary component monolayer models to understand how charges and saturation and membrane composition affect the amount of peptide binding and the extent of insertion. The careful use of isotopic contrasts will allow us to analyse the structures using the kenematic approach. 5 days of Surf beam time is requested to complete the tasks as proposed. This work will provide direct molecular insight of peptide selectivity to different membranes.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1520191-2
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/65799006
Provenance
Creator Mr Charles Smith; Mr Robert Holman; Dr John Webster; Dr Zongyi Li; Dr Arwel Hughes; Dr Mario Campana; Professor Jian Lu; Miss Daniela Ciumac
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-10-12T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-10-14T23:00:00Z