Japanese scientists have made a simple structural mimic of multipass transmembrane (MTM) proteins, one of the most common types of membrane protein.
Kazushi Kinbara, at Tohoku University, and colleagues made alternating amphiphilic multiblock molecules consisting of linearly connected hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties. They found that the hydrophobic units stacked face-to-face to give folded structures, like those of MTM proteins.
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