Figure 5.
The energy of membrane deformation in the vicinity of two gramicidin dimers (A) and monomers (B and C) as a function of the distance between the monomers. (B) The monomers here are in the same monolayer, whereas in (C) the monomers are in the opposite monolayers. The black horizontal dashed line corresponds to the energy 2Wdimer of two infinitely distant gramicidin dimers; the brown horizontal dashed lines correspond to the energy 2Wmonomer of two infinitely distant isolated gramicidin molecules. To see this figure in color, go online.