Journal article
Compatibility of detergents with the microbatch-under-oil crystallization method
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography., v 59(Pt 6), pp 1114-1116
Jun 2003
PMID: 12777792
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Abstract
Detergents are required to solubilize integral membrane proteins and are common components of the solutions used to crystallize these molecules. It has been unclear whether these detergents are completely compatible with the oils used in the microbatch-under-oil crystallization technique, because they might conceivably be lost from solution by partitioning into the oil phase. The partitioning of the detergents n-octyl-beta-d-glucopyranoside and Fos-Choline-12 into two different oils used for microbatch crystallization experiments has been examined. It was found that vigorous mixing and prolonged incubation of the aqueous detergent solutions with the oils leads to small losses of detergent (approximately 5% of the total detergent mass); however, gentle mixing that is more typical of the mixing encountered in a crystallization experiments leads to negligible loss of detergent.
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- Title
- Compatibility of detergents with the microbatch-under-oil crystallization method
- Creators
- Patrick J Loll - Department of Biochemistry, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192, USA. pat.loll@drexel.eduAnna TretiakovaErik Soderblom
- Publication Details
- Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography., v 59(Pt 6), pp 1114-1116
- Publisher
- Intl Union of Crystallography; United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000183043700036
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0037706939
- Other Identifier
- 991014878048504721
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