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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 17.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Mol Bioeng. 2016 Feb 18;9(2):252–257. doi: 10.1007/s12195-016-0431-1

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Spontaneous curvature potentially generated by tethered proteins such as SUN1 due to the entropic repulsion between the coiled domains. The same entropic force can also prevent the bilayers from coming close together for fusion. Blue bubbles represent the excluded volume regions created by fluctuations of free SUN proteins.