Fracture faces of frozen membranes.

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Abstract
Fracture planes within frozen cell membranes were examined by freeze-etching. The frozen membrane is fractured so as to expose inner membrane faces. Examination of these faces suggests that the biological membrane is organized in part as an extended bilayer and in part as globular subunlts. The relative proportion of the membrane which exists in either of these organizational modes varies among the different cell organelles.