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Drawing from the lipid composition of mammalian plasma membranes, we here investigate how different head groups modulate the verapamil-stimulated ATPase activity of purified Pgp in detergent-lipid micelles and compare them with components of <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> lipids. Our general approach was to assay modulation of verapamil-stimulation of ATPase activity by artificial lipid mixtures starting with the bilayer-forming palmitoyloyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) and -phosphatidylethanolamine (POPE). We show that POPC\/POPE supplemented with sphingomyelin (SM), cardiolipin, or phosphatidic acid enhanced the verapamil-stimulated activity (V<jats:sub>max<\/jats:sub>) and decreased the concentration required for half-maximal activity (EC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>). Cholesterol (Chol) and more so its soluble hemisuccinate derivative cholesteryl hemisuccinate substantially decreased EC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>, perhaps by supporting the functional integrity of the drug binding sites. High concentrations of CHS (&amp;gt;15%) resulted in a significantly increased basal activity which could be due to binding of CHS to the drug binding site as transport substrate or as activator, maybe acting cooperatively with verapamil. Lastly, Pgp reconstituted into liposomes or nanodiscs displayed higher basal activity and sustained high levels of verapamil stimulated activity. 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