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The solubilization of biological membranes by detergents plays an Important role in the identification, characterization, and extraction of integral membrane proteins. The most commonly used detergents in the biological sciences are described in Chapter 28, and several review articles exist on solubilization procedures (1–3). Since the initial extraction of intrinisic membrane proteins usually involves high detergent concentrations, excess detergent has to be removed or exchanged for another type of detergent at later stages of preparative or analytical procedures involving the solubilized protein fraction. The efficiency of certain chromatographic procedures is often significantly improved by lowering the overall detergent concentration or by exchanging one type of detergent for another. Lectin chromatography, a powerful technique to affinity-purify subsets of glycoproteins (see Chapter18), appears to be especially sensitive to high concentrations of a variety of detergents (4). Furthermore, since high concentrations and/or certain types of detergent interfere with many physical and chemical analyses and detergents also exhibit undesirable side effects on highly sensitive cell biological assays, detergent removal is in many cases of central importance for retaining the biological activity of isolated membrane proteins. Another important area of detergent removal is reconstitution studies with hydrophobic membrane proteins that exhibit vectorial transport (3).
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Ohlendieck, K. (1996). Removal of Detergent from Protein Fractions. In: Doonan, S. (eds) Protein Purification Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 59. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-336-8:305
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