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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 1989 May 16;28(10):4135–4139. doi: 10.1021/bi00436a002

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Schematic representation of interfacial catalysis by PLA in the scooting mode. The enzyme (small hatched sphere) binds tightly to the vesicle and hydrolyzes all of the substrate in the outermonolayer. After the completion of the reaction, the enzyme still remains in the vesicle. The vesicles maintain their physical structure even after all of the substrate is hydrolyzed. The vesicles have been sliced in half to show their inner and outer surfaces. The glycerol backbone and polar head groups of the phospholipid are drawn as ellipses and the fatty acid chains as lines.