Table 1.
Summary of structural and dynamical properties of the lipid bilayer as a function of area-per-lipid
Bilayer property | Area-per-lipid, α/nm2 |
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0.635 | 0.650 | 0.675 | 0.687 | 0.700 | 0.725 | 0.750 | S.E.a | |
Surface tension/mN m−1 | −2.62 | 0.86 | 5.24 | 6.85 | 9.19 | 13.49 | 15.87 | 0.32 |
Volume per lipid/nm3 | 1.233 | 1.234 | 1.236 | 1.237 | 1.238 | 1.239 | 1.240 | 0.001 |
Bilayer thickness/nm | 4.20 | 4.13 | 4.00 | 3.94 | 3.86 | 3.76 | 3.63 | <0.01 |
Average trans fraction of chains (%) | 76.8 | 76.5 | 76 | 75.9 | 75.7 | 75.4 | 75.2 | 0.2 |
End-to-end tail vector angle/° | 36 | 40 | 43 | 48 | 50 | 53 | 57 | 1 |
Electrostatic potential/mV | 615 | 614 | 596 | 608 | 605 | 597 | 589 | 10 |
Electrostatic potential barrier/mV | 759 | 770 | 727 | 727 | 722 | 704 | 677 | — |
Mean square displacement (τ = 200 ps)/Å2 | 5.41 | 5.74 | 6.57 | 7.00 | 7.19 | 8.02 | 8.85 | 0.06 |
Lateral diffusion coefficient/10−12 m2 s−1 | 8.16 | 9.35 | 9.80 | 11.71 | 12.16 | 16.72 | 23.29 | 0.72 |
Rotational relaxation time τ1/ns | 0.34 | 0.30 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0.21 | 0.17 | 0.15 | ±0.01b |
Rotational relaxation time τ2/ns | 3.77 | 3.57 | 2.75 | 2.40 | 2.23 | 1.92 | 1.67 | ±0.03b |
Reported mean standard errors (S.E.) are upper limits of all the simulations.
95% confidence intervals obtained from curve-fitting.