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. 2013 May 31;14(6):11643–11691. doi: 10.3390/ijms140611643

Figure 12.

Figure 12

Different crystal types of membrane proteins. (A) Type I crystals: layers of membrane proteins stacked side by side, with hydrophobic surfaces providing crystals contacts, are stacked one on another; (B) Type II crystals: detergent molecules shield hydrophobic regions of membrane proteins and crystal contacts involve only polar heads; (C) Type III crystals: vesicular proteoliposomes forming the crystalline arrangement.