This protocol demonstrates how to obtain a low-resolution ab initio model and structural details of a detergent-solubilized membrane protein in solution using small-angle neutron scattering with contrast-matching of the detergent.
Oliver, R. C., Naing, S., Weiss, K. L., Pingali, S. V., Lieberman, R. L., Urban, V. S. Contrast-Matching Detergent in Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Experiments for Membrane Protein Structural Analysis and Ab Initio Modeling. J. Vis. Exp. (140), e57901, doi:10.3791/57901 (2018).