Fig. 4.
The packing of hsm-complexes under intracellular molecular crowding conditions. Black spheres are dissolved molecules. The fine lines are the surfaces of their hydration shells: (A) the hsm-complexes are closely spaced down to overlapping the hydration shells: the interactions between hsm-complexes are described by the Gw-barrier part of the Gmw-potential curves. (B) Break-up of the molecule into two parts at the center of the figure. Disruption of this molecule leads to the formation of the hydration shell–hydration shell contacts between the disrupted hsm-complex and neighboring hsm-complexes.