Peptitergents (a portmanteau of peptide and detergent) are synthetic peptides designed to be lipophilic on one side and hydrophilic on the other upon folding to an α-helical conformation and were designed to solubilize integral membrane proteins in aqueous solution.[1] They can be considered a sub-class of amphipols and are based on earlier fundamental explorations of amphiphilic secondary structures[2]
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