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. 2018 Sep 3;13:5003–5022. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S166403

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Proposed mechanism of surfactant-like peptides stabilizing membrane proteins.

Note: Peptide molecules, acting as traditional surfactants, bind their hydrophobic tails to the hydrophobic region of a membrane protein and prevent it from destabilizing.