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Hemifluorinated Maltose‐Neopentyl Glycol (HF‐MNG) Amphiphiles for Membrane Protein Stabilisation
Author(s) -
Cho Kyung Ho,
Byrne Bernadette,
Chae Pil Seok
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
chembiochem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1439-7633
pISSN - 1439-4227
DOI - 10.1002/cbic.201200759
Subject(s) - amphiphile , chemistry , maltose , rhodobacter , membrane , organic chemistry , biochemistry , copolymer , sucrose , mutant , gene , polymer
Soap opera: Fluorinated amphiphile F4‐MNG confers greater stability on Rhodobacter capsulatus superassembly relative to conventional detergents and nonfluorinated MNGs. Such amphiphiles are attractive as tools for membrane science because of their ease of preparation and structure variation.