FRAP: Is it possible for a protein to have high recovery&slow mobility?

[cherr1pop]

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I was reading: http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/Molbio/FRAPx/FRAP.html and at the end of this it has a question:

"What would you predict for the percent recovery and lateral mobility for large multi-subunit integral membrane proteins that are not anchored to the cytoskeleton?"

And my guess is it would have high recovery (cause it's not anchored) but slow mobility (cause it's large)?

Originally I thought high recovery = fast mobility but after reading the page carefully that doesn't seem to be the case because they wait until the graph flattens out to calculate recovery and for mobility it depends on the slope of the curve.

Could someone help me out?

 

[PooyaH]

I believe it is possible. Proteins with large molecular weight would have slow mobility and at the same time high recovery!