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. 2015 May 5;108(9):2258–2269. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.03.053

Figure 2.

Figure 2

(A) A schematic of the axisymmetric model in the undeformed configuration showing the location of SNARE and direction of force applied. (B) The repulsive forces (shown by the dotted lines) act on the deformed configuration of the vesicle, as does the SNARE force, F. (C) The figure shows the convention for shear force (Q) in-plane tension (T) and moment (M) acting on the cross section of the membrane at location ξ(S), where ϕ(S) is the tangent angle in the undeformed configuration measured from the vertical. (D) Example of a deformed vesicle-plasma membrane complex for a 20-nm diameter vesicle docked by 15 SNAREs. To see this figure in color, go online.