Figure 5.

Membrane shape in the vicinity of two free peptide trimers in the optimal configuration (θ₁ = θ₂ = π/2). The distance between the peptides is L = 10 nm, which corresponds to the conditions of Figure 4b. (a) Contour plot of the shape of the neutral surface of the upper monolayer, H_u(x, y). Peptides are shown as oblique gray cylinders, the centers of which have coordinates x = 5 nm, y = 0 and x = −5 nm, y = 0. (b) Shape of the neutral surface of the upper monolayer, H_u(0, y), along the line x = 0 (dashed black line in panel (a)) passing in the middle between the peptides. The horizontal dotted line corresponds to the H_u value far from the peptides.