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. 2015 Jun 30;3:e1065. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1065

Figure 3. Lipid mixing assay for the nitroxide spin-labeled of SNAP-25 mutants.

Figure 3

The curves represent the lipid mixing when the wild-type or nitroxide spin-labeled SNAP-25 at positions of 181 and 188 were used in the proteoliposome fusion assay (protein/lipid ratio 1:200). The data were normalized against the maximum fluorescence intensity (MFI) obtained by adding 0.1% reduced Triton-X-100. The control runs with the v-SNARE vesicles and the t-SNARE vesicles without SNAP-25 (grey curve). The inset in the left corner is the electron micrograph of the SNAREs-reconstituted vesicles used in assays. The vesicles were stained with 1% phosphotungstic acid on the carbon grids. The size of the vesicles was 90 ± 15 nm.