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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids. 2008 Nov 11;79(0):131–134. doi: 10.1016/j.plefa.2008.09.002

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Snapshots of an 18:0-22:6n-3-PC molecule in a lipid bilayer taken from a 500 ps-window of a 10 ns-long molecular dynamics simulation by Feller et al. [12]. The polyunsaturated chain is shown in purple, the saturated chain in yellow and the phosphocholine headgroup and glycerol region of the lipid in blue. The images demonstrate the rapid structural conversions of DHA chains on the subnanosecond timescale. The tendency of DHA to have higher density near the lipid water interface is visible as well.