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Amphipols are small polymers that enable handling of membrane proteins in detergent-free aqueous solution as though they were soluble proteins. They form hydrophilic complexes with the protein and allow working without detergents. The short Amphipol A8-35 is highly soluble in water and tightly binds to the transmembrane domains through its hydrophobic moieties^[2]. A8-35 facilitates stability and biological activity of solubilized membrane proteins^[3] and is especially useful for sample preparation in Cryo-EM^[4-7].

The amphiphilic polymer Amphipol A8-35 consists of a strong hydrophilic backbone grafted with hydrophobic chains^[1]. 

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References:
[1] Tribet et al. (1996) Amphipols: Polymers that keep membrane proteins soluble in aqueous solutions PNAS 93:15047.
[2] Zoonens et al. (2014) Amphipols for Each Season. J. Membrane Biol. 247:759.
[3] Popot et al. (2011) Amphipols From A to Z. Annu. Rev. Biophys. 40:379.
[4] Chen et al. (2016) Structure of the STRA6 receptor for retinol uptake. Science 353:887.
[5] Zubcevic et al. (2016) Cryo-Electron Microscopy of the Trpv2 Ion Channel. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 23:180.
[6] Bai et al. (2015) Sampling the conformational space of the catalytic subunit of human gamma-secretase. DOI 10.7554/eLife.11182.
[7] Althoff et al. (2011) Arrangement of electron transport chain components in bovine mitochondrial supercomplex I1III2IV1. EMBO J. 30:4652.