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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: Pflugers Arch. 2007 Oct 12;456(4):651–661. doi: 10.1007/s00424-007-0353-9

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Protein-lipid interactions in bacteriorhodopsin (bR) structures. bR structures obtained with (a) 2D crystals, (b) 3D crystals produced from fused bicelles, and (c) 3D crystals obtained in lipidic cubic phase (LCP). The top panels show ribbon diagrams of bR. The residues containing an atom located within 5 Å of a lipid molecule in the LCP structure are shown in ball-and-stick representations. The lower panels show plots of the temperature factors of all the atoms in the bR structures against their position in the direction normal to the membrane plane. The temperature factors of the lipid-contacting atoms are shown in dark shades and those of the other atoms in light shades.