CHAPSO  (Synonyms: 3-[3-(Cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-2-hydroxy-1-propanesulfonate)

CHAPSO is a zwitterionic detergent that is thermally stable. CHAPSO is able to broaden the particle orientation distribution, enabling single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to produce isotropically uniform maps. CHAPSO can eliminate the directional bias of bacterial transcription complexes and help determine the structure of bacterial transcription complexes under cryo-electron microscopy^[1][2].

630.88

C₃₂H₅₈N₂O₈S

82473-24-3

Solid

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Room temperature in continental US; may vary elsewhere.

4°C, stored under nitrogen

*In solvent : -80°C, 6 months; -20°C, 1 month (stored under nitrogen)

• [1]. Li M, et al. Morphological characterization of DMPC/CHAPSO bicellar mixtures: a combined SANS and NMR study. Langmuir. 2013 Dec 23;29(51):15943-57.  [Content Brief]

  [2]. Chen J, et al. Eliminating effects of particle adsorption to the air/water interface in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy: Bacterial RNA polymerase and CHAPSO. J Struct Biol X. 2019 Jan-Mar;1:100005.  [Content Brief]