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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Membr Biol. 2014 Mar 21;247(5):395–408. doi: 10.1007/s00232-014-9646-z

Table 1.

Parameters for all continuum calculations

Parameters Values
Electrostatics grid dimensions 161 x 161 x 161 Å3
Coarse grid lengths 200 x 200 x 200 Å3
Fine grid lengths 50 x 50 x 50 Å3
Radial points 1,400
Counter-ions 0.1 M symmetric salt
Protein dielectric 2.0
Membrane dielectric 2.0
Head group dielectric 80.0
Solvent dielectric 80.0
Solvent probe radius 1.4 Å
Surface sphere density 10.0 grid points/Å2
Temperature 298.15 K
Membrane thickness See Table 2
Head group thickness 8.0 Å
Bending modulus (Kc) See Table 2
Compression modulus (Ka) 2.30 x 10-11 N/Å
Surface tension (α) 3.00 x 1013
Outer boundary radius 800 or 19.5 Å