FIGURE 6.

Thickness deformation profiles for positively mismatched proteins over a range of radii (R = 0.75 nm to 4.5 nm; data for R = 5.25 nm is not shown due to space constraints but is qualitatively very similar to data for R = 4.5 nm). Circles are actual data from simulation. Solid lines correspond to Eq. 7. Protein mismatch is t_(R)/t₀ = 0.094. Membrane parameters are in Table 1 for the solid lines; dashed lines are the same except k_G = 0 and η = 0, corresponding to the original theory of A-E. For the case of positive mismatch, the theory presented in this article fares similarly to A-E in prediction of the decay profiles.