Open AccessLife During Wartime: A Personal Recollection of the Circa 1990 Prestegard Lab and Its Contributions to Membrane Biophysics
Author(s) -
Charles R. Sanders
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of membrane biology (print)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.591
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1432-1424
pISSN - 0022-2631
DOI - 10.1007/s00232-019-00090-5
Subject(s) - model lipid bilayer , biological membrane , biophysics , chemistry , lipid bilayer , membrane , biochemistry , biology , lipid bilayer phase behavior
A subjective account is presented of challenges and excitement of being a postdoctoral trainee in the lab of James H. Prestegard at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut from 1989 to 1991. This includes accounts of the early development of bicelles and of oriented sample NMR results that contributed to our modern understanding of the properties of the water-lipid interface of disordered phase biological membranes.