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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Methods. 2011 Oct 21;55(4):310–317. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2011.10.011

Figure 4. Models for DDM versus CHS:DDM micelles.

Figure 4

Addition of CHS to DDM micelles (A) results in altered mixed micelle morphologies (B). CHS inserts mostly in less curved regions of DDM micelles inducing a pseudo-bicelle architecture with the core forming a membrane–like bilayer disk consisting of DDM and CHS molecules flanked with a belt of DDM molecules. Rigid CHS molecules order DDM alkyl tails, resulting in a slight increase in the thickness of the hydrophobic slab, and decrease the area per DDM molecule, which results in reorientation of DDM maltoside head groups (yellow ovals), increasing the thickness of the hydrophilic layer.