FIGURE 3. Attraction and cooperative budding driven by 16 capsids on a membrane containing 40,960 lipids.
From the following article:
Aggregation and vesiculation of membrane proteins by curvature-mediated interactions
Benedict J. Reynwar, Gregoria Illya, Vagelis A. Harmandaris, Martin M. Müller, Kurt Kremer & Markus Deserno
Nature 447, 461-464(24 May 2007)
doi:10.1038/nature05840
a–f, A series of simulation snapshots. The times are: a, 0
; b, 1,000; c, 7,000; d, 16,000; e, 17,000; and f, 18,000, the last corresponding to roughly 0.3 ms. The arrows in c point to formed capsid-pairs. The slices d–f indicate cooperative budding, a phenomenon also seen in the electron micrograph (g) of late domain mutated MPMV virions (scale bar, 500 nm; reprinted from ref. 28 with permission of authors and publisher; copyright 2003, The American Society for Microbiology).
