Magnetic contrast reflectometry to resolve transmembrane potential effects on the binding of MinD-MTS to a floating bilayer

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The division of bacteria is controlled by the binding of proteins to the inner of the two lipid bilayer membranes that separates the inside of the cell from the outside world. This membrane behaves like a capacitor and its properties are thought to vary with the size of the electrical potential that exists across it. We can construct a flat model for this membrane above a gold-coated silicon block and use the reflection of neutrons from this thin film to probe the details of the structure of the membrane and how this changes with an applied electrical potential and when the anchoring peptide of the cell division protein inserts into the membrane. From this information we hope to understand if the insertion of this protein is controlled by the electrical potential, which can be related to metabolic state of actual bacteria. In the long term this may help to control bacterial infection.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82414781
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82414781
Provenance
Creator Miss Laura McKinley; Dr Rob Barker; Dr Christy Kinane; Dr Simon Titmuss
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-10-07T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-11T23:00:00Z