A Snapshot of the Simulation of the Plasma Membrane in a Soybean Hypocotyl (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

A Snapshot of the Simulation of the Plasma Membrane in a Soybean Hypocotyl

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This is a snapshot of the simulation of the plasma membrane in a soybean hypocotyl. The glycerol phospholipids appear in blue line; the sitosterol and stigmasterol are red and yellow lines respectively; water molecules are red dots; and the potassium ions are represented as green spheres.

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Zhuang/Ou/Klauda

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