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Published in final edited form as: J Struct Funct Genomics. 2010 Mar 27;11(2):155–166. doi: 10.1007/s10969-010-9088-5

Table 3. Lipid solubilization by detergent.

The numbers indicate the amount of a particular detergent (in mg/ml) needed to solubilize 1.5mg/ml of lipid, as assessed by turbidity measurements at 500nm.

	DDM	Triton X-100	OTG	OG	C₈E₅
DMPC	2	1	7^*	6	4
DOPC	14^*	3^*	7^*	8	7^*
DOPG	4	2	4	4	4
POPC	13	3^*	5	8	5
E.coli polar lipids	7	3^*	5	10^*	5

Conditions used for preparing lipid/detergent stocks for 2D crystallization.