Meanings
plural amphipols
- Any of a range of amphipathic polymers used as speciality surfactants
Interestingly, purified Kv1.3 proteins exchanged into the amphipol A8-35 appeared as a double band on 8 % SDS-PAGE.
2015 July 10, John M. Spear et al., “Kv1.3 contains an alternative C-terminal ER exit motif and is recruited into COPII vesicles by Sec24a”, in BMC Biochemistry, volume 16, →DOI
Origin
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