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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2010 Apr 25;76(4):822–832. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07168.x

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Comparison of macromolecule and surface dimensions on very small vesicles and bacterial membranes. A 26 amino acid-long perfectly alpha helical peptide is depicted as a 40 angstrom-long rod lying tangentially on the surface of either a small vesicle of 50 nm diameter (A) or a large organelle of 1 micron diameter (B). The calculated distance between the central axis of the rod and the surface of the vesicle is shown on the right in the magnified inset. The length of the rod, circumference of the spheres, and the inflection of the membranes are all drawn to scale.