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L8920

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Lipodisq®

Styrene:Maleic Anhydride Copolymer 2:1

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UNSPSC Code:
12352202
NACRES:
NA.25

biological source

synthetic

form

powder

storage temp.

room temp

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Application

Lipodisq® has been used in nanoparticle preparation along with palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine (POPC) and palmitoyloleoyl phosphatidylglycerol (POPG).
Lipodisq® reagents are novel polymers derived from styrene and maleic acid. Lipodisq polymers are capable of forming nanosized lipid-based discoidal particles capable of incorporating membrane proteins. The Lipodisq technology can solubilize commonly used lipids such as dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) without the use of detergents. In general, Lipodisq polymers are potentially useful in mitigating the use of detergents for the solubilization of membrane proteins. Lipodisqs typically have a diameter of 9-10 nm at pH 7.4.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Lipodisq® is detergent-free and is useful in membrane protein biophysical studies including electron microscopy (EM), circular dichroism (CD), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques as well as delivery vehicle.

Legal Information

Lipodisq is a registered trademark of Malvern Cosmeceutics Limited

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Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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Detergent-Free Formation and Physicochemical Characterization of Nanosized Lipid-Polymer Complexes: Lipodisq
Orwick MC, et al.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 51(19), 4653-4657 (2012)
Juan Francisco Bada Juarez et al.
Chemistry and physics of lipids, 221, 167-175 (2019-04-04)
Nanoparticles assembled with poly(styrene-maleic acid) copolymers, identified in the literature as Lipodisq, SMALPs or Native Nanodisc, are routinely used as membrane mimetics to stabilise protein structures in their native conformation. To date, transmembrane proteins of varying complexity (up to 8

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