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Construction of Model Lipid Membranes Incorporating G-protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs)
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Chapters
- 00:05Introduction
- 01:16Preparation of Materials and Reagents
- 02:58Hydrogel Preparation
- 03:40Agarose and Protein Mixing
- 04:05Hydrogel and Lipid Deposition
- 06:09Swelling and Harvesting of Vesicles
- 08:03Representative Results: Microscopy of Vesicles
- 08:51Conclusion
This protocol utilizes agarose swelling as a powerful and generalizable technique for incorporating integral membrane proteins (IMPs) into giant unilamellar lipid vesicles (GUVs), as described here for the reconstitution of the human 1A serotonin receptor protein (5-HT1AR), one of the classes of pharmacologically important G protein-coupled receptors.
