Figure 9
Electron-density map of purple membrane projected onto a membrane plane. It was calculated with diffraction amplitudes up to the (113) reflection, a resolution of 4.2 Å. The envelope shown by the dashed line shows the border of one BR monomer, and the characters A–G are the names of seven transmembrane α-helices. The triangle symbols denote the positions of threefold rotational symmetry points. [From Fig. 3 in Oka et al. (2006).] |