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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 29.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2011 Mar 4;50(12):2249–2263. doi: 10.1021/bi101301g

FIGURE 10. Schematic model of the polar lipid remodeling-switch hypothesis.

FIGURE 10

Postulated role of “sticky” N-terminal proline-rich domains in fusion between particles that have exceeded a critical polar lipid concentration. PL molecules are represented schematically in the usual ball (dark gray) and stick (black) motif. Particles are represented as bilayers in cross-section. Central domains (light gray ribbon helixes); terminal remodeling-switch domains (dark gray tube helixes).