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The protective antigen (PA) moiety of anthrax toxin exists as a stable prepore, converting into the pore form under low pH to translocate the enzymatic components across the host cell membrane. The PA pore rapidly aggregates in solution, and it is now shown that the chaperone GroEL can stabilize the PA pore, allowing single-particle EM analysis. This method could be useful for other membrane protein complexes.