Figure 5.
Potential energy of a flip-flopping CHOL molecule as a function of time. The potential energy barrier is ∼100 KJ/mol. The inset shows the cholesterol molecule (headgroup is red and ring/tail structure is cyan) in the middle of the bilayer.
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