Micelle - particle subtraction

Hi,

just a word to be precise, we are not talking about detergent micelles, but rather detergent belts around the membrane protein. The belt is a different object compared to the micelle, it doesn’t follow the same properties as the micelle in terms of size, number of monomers inside, and in case of detergent mixture they really do not behave the same at all.
An example is that there are 80 DDM in a micelle, while you can find 400 in the detergent belt around A 12TM membrane protein.

best
Vincent

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