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. 2013 May 7;8(5):e62810. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062810

Table 1. Molar concentrations, number of AMP molecules associated with each lipid, and number of AMP molecules in the inter-lamellar space between two lipids (assuming that approximately every second bilayer excludes AMP molecules).

AMP:DMPC AMP/lipid AMP/lipids inter-lamellar Lipid/AMP Fraction Area per lipid molecule (Å2) # of layers calculated # of layers observed
0∶1 0 0 40.8
1∶2 1 2 0.76∶1 40.0 1.4 1
1∶1 2 4 0.67∶1 40.0 2.8 1,2
2∶1 4 8 0.89∶1 40.0 5.9 2,4,8
3∶1 6 12 0.78∶1 40.0 8.5 8,9

The Lipid/AMP fraction refers to the ratio of lipid correlation peaks in Figure 3 A, normalized to the pure lipid peak. The positions of these lipid peaks were used to calculate the area per lipid molecule, which increased from 40.0 to 42.8 Å with AMP present. The area per AMP was calculated by multiplying the unit cell parameters of the tetragonal unit cell to 30.0 Å. The number of layers between a bilayer as obtained from calculation and from the data in Figure 4 is also included.