Figure 4: Impact of N-glycosylation on the diffusion of VSG. | Nature Communications

Figure 4: Impact of N-glycosylation on the diffusion of VSG.

From: N-glycosylation enables high lateral mobility of GPI-anchored proteins at a molecular crowding threshold

Figure 4

The relative frequency distributions for wild-type (wt) and N-glycosylation deficient (mut) VSG121 (a) and VSG117 (b). Frequency distributions were fitted with a Gaussian function. The diffusion coefficients do not differ significantly, whereas there is a significant change in the mobile fractions of the wt and mut VSG. (c) Impact of the lateral protein density of wt and N-glycosylation deficient (mut) VSG121 on their diffusion in artificial membranes. The error bars in y (diffusion coefficient) represent the standard deviation of the mean, while the error bars in x (average free distance) depict the range. P values determined by an unpaired t-test.

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