Part I. Experimental Techniques for Membrane Protein Structure Determination

1. Crystallization of Membrane Proteins in Bicelles

Sayeh Agah and Salem Faham

2. Vapor Diffusion Controlled meso Crystallization of Membrane Proteins

J. Labahn, J. Kubicek, F.Schäfer

3. Solution NMR Studies of Integral Polytopic a-helical Membrane Proteins: The Structure Determination of the Seven-helix Transmembrane Receptor Sensory Rhodopsin II, pSRII

Antoine Gautier and Daniel Nietlispach

4. Use of NMR Saturation Transfer Difference Spectroscopy to Study Ligand Binding to Membrane Proteins

Rani Parvathy Venkitakrishnan, Outhiriaradjou Benard, Marianna Max, John L. Markley, and Fariba M. Assadi-Porter

5. How to Investigate Interactions Between Membrane Proteins and Ligands by Solid-state NMR

Andrea Lakatos, Karsten Mörs, Clemens Glaubitz

6. Identifying and Measuring Transmembrane Helix-helix Interactions by FRET

Damien Thévenin, and Tzvetana Lazarova

7. Studying Substrate Binding to Reconstituted Secondary Transporters by Attenuated Total Reflection Infrared Difference Spectroscopy

Víctor A. Lórenz-Fonfría, Xavier León, and Esteve Padrós

8. UV-Visible and Infrared Methods for Investigating Lipid-Rhodopsin Membrane Interactions

Michael F. Brown

9. Proteomic Characterization of Integral Membrane Proteins Using Thermostatted Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Sarah M. Moore and Christine C. Wu

Part II. Computational Methods for Prediction of Membrane Protein Structure and Dynamics

10. LITiCon: A Discrete Conformational Sampling Computational Method for Mapping Various Functionally Selective Conformational States of Transmembrane Helical Proteins

Supriyo Bhattacharya and Nagarajan Vaidehi

11. Homology Model-assisted Elucidation of Binding Sites in GPCRs

Anat Levit, Dov Barak, Maik Behrens, Wolfgang Meyerhof and Masha Y. Niv

12. Comparative Modeling of Lipid Receptors

Abby L. Parrill

13. Quantification of Structural Distortions in the Transmembrane Helices of GPCRs

Xavier Deupi

14. Structure Prediction of G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Their Ensemble of Functionally Important Conformations

Ravinder Abrol, Adam R. Griffith, Jenelle K. Bray, and William A. Goddard III

Christofer S. Tautermann

16. Predicting the Biological Activities through QSAR Analysis and Docking-based Scoring

Santiago Vilar and Stefano Costanzi

17. Identification of Motions in Membrane Proteins by Elastic Network Models and Their Experimental Validation

Basak Isin, Kalyan Tirupula, Zoltán N. Oltvai, Judith Klein-Seetharaman and Ivet Bahar

18. Modeling the Structural Communication in Supramolecular Complexes Involving GPCRs

Francesca Fanelli

19. Exploring Substrate Diffusion in Channels using Biased Molecular Dynamics Simulations

James Gumbart

3. Solution NMR Studies of Integral Polytopic a-helical Membrane Proteins: The Structure Determination of the Seven-helix Transmembrane Receptor Sensory Rhodopsin II, pSRII

Antoine Gautier and Daniel Nietlispach

4. Use of NMR Saturation Transfer Difference Spectroscopy to Study Ligand Binding to Membrane Proteins

Rani Parvathy Venkitakrishnan, Outhiriaradjou Benard, Marianna Max, John L. Markley, and Fariba M. Assadi-Porter

5. How to Investigate Interactions Between Membrane Proteins and Ligands by Solid-state NMR

Andrea Lakatos, Karsten Mörs, Clemens Glaubitz

6. Identifying and Measuring Transmembrane Helix-helix Interactions by FRET

Damien Thévenin, and Tzvetana Lazarova

7. Studying Substrate Binding to Reconstituted Secondary Transporters by Attenuated Total Reflection Infrared Difference Spect