Figure 12.
(a) Schematic draft of S-palmitoylation at the covalent attachment of 16-C saturated fatty acids to cysteine residues of membrane proteins via thioester linkages;108 (b) hydrophobic docking sites at the RBD/ACE2 interface (reproduced from ref (124); Val is an abbreviation for valine residue; green areas in the drafts of amino acid residues refer to the hydrophobic areas of the molecules); and (c) schematic draft showing the role of highly flexible and disordered M protein complexes in enhancing membrane bulging (highly flexible M protein drawing is from ref (146)).