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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci. 2011 Jun 1;16(3):203–214. doi: 10.1016/j.cocis.2010.12.004

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Schematic (right) and freeze-fracture transmission electron micrograph (left) of vesosome structure. Small, unilamellar vesicles (50 – 100 nm diameter) are encapsulated within 200 – 2000 nm diameter bilayers formed by the transition from the interdigitated LbI phase to the La phase induced by heating the sample above 45° C. Here the interior and exterior compartments are both made of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine.