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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Immunol Res. 2010 Jul;47(1-3):265–272. doi: 10.1007/s12026-009-8159-9

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

A diagram of the elements of a functional plasma membrane that lead to formation of patches of class I MHC molecules at steady-state. The membrane is considered as a checkerboard formed by lipid bilayer (the plane shown) and a mesh of actin-based membrane skeleton. This pattern is disrupted by opening of the actin mesh and by fusion of vesicles with the bilayer. It is assumed that membrane area is kept constant so that a patch membrane is removed from the surface for every patch created by vesicle fusion. Based on [22]