Figure 3: (a) Space-filling model of the two lipidated oligopeptides, LPE and LPK. (b) The two lipidated oligopeptides are spontaneously incorporated into lipid bilayers resulting in liposomes with either LPE or LPK at the surface. When a population of liposomes carrying LPE is mixed with a population of liposomes carrying LPK, the liposomes spontaneously fuse. (c) Diagram showing the fusion of liposomes with the minimal SNARE model of the paper (left) and the SNARE-based protein model (right).
