Figure 4.

MD simulations of detergent micelles formed of (A) 60 sodium docecyl sulfate (SDS), (B) 98 n-dodecyl β-d-maltoside (DDM), and (C) 65 DPC molecule. In (A), the sulfate group of SDS is represented by a yellow sphere, in (B) the two glucosides are shown by blue and turquoise spheres respectively, and in (C) the choline and phosphate groups are depicted as green and orange spheres, respectively, while the alky chains are represented as sticks. Atomic coordinates for SDS, DDM, and DPC micelles have been taken from https://www.tuhh.de/alt/v8/links/membranesmicelles.html,⁸³http://micelle.icm.uu.se/example01.htm, and http://people.ucalgary.c/~tieleman/download.html, respectively. Part (D) shows the distribution of the different moieties of DPC as obtained from MD simulations.⁸⁴