Figure 2.
Characteristics of catechol release from vesicles. A plot of peak half-width vs vesicle radius reveals the kinetic dependency on vesicular size. Key: (◆) events measured in alcohol-free buffer; (■) events measured in 0.86 M ethanol buffer; (▲) events measured in 1.71 M ethanol buffer. Error bars represent ± the standard error of the mean (SEM), and in many cases the error bars are smaller than the symbols that represent the data points due to the extremely small peak to peak variation. Inset: An amperometric trace resulting from catechol release during membrane distention.