A Curvature-Mediated Mechanism for Localization of Lipids to Bacterial Poles
Figure 4
Effect of Membrane Composition on Cluster Formation
(A,C) The percentage of lipid A is ϕ = 0.15; the clusters remain approximately the same size as in Figure 2B, with the same lipid and elastic parameters.
(C) The rectangles at the left and right represent the poles of the cell with slightly higher curvature γpole = 0.04 nm−1, as in Figure 3.
(B,D) Identical to (A) and (C), respectively, except that ϕ = 0.3.