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Figure 8.11 (See color insert) Schematic illustration of designed peptide detergents used to solubilize and
stabilize membrane proteins. When mixed with membrane proteins, they solubilize and stabilize them, presumably
at the belt domain where the membrane proteins are embedded in lipid membranes.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We also would like to thank members of the lab, past and present, for making discoveries
and conducting exciting research. We gratefully acknowledge the supports by grants from
ARO, ONR, DARPA (BioComputing), DARPA or Naval Research Labs, DARPA or AFOSR,
MURI or AFOSR, NIH, NSF-MIT BPEC and NSF CCR–0122419 to MIT Media Lab’s Center
for Bits and Atoms, the Whitaker Foundation, DuPont-MIT Alliance, Menicon, Ltd, Japan,
Olympus Biomaterials Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp. Research Center. We also acknowledge the
Intel Corporation’s educational donation of computing cluster to the Center for Biomedical
Engineering at MIT.

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