Figure 1. (A) A section of 3D axisymmetric FE model of the lipid bilayer and the incorporated MscL. The upper and lower layers represent the head groups and the core illustrates the tails of lipid bilayer. The thickness of the representative volume element (RVE) is 5 Å. (B) The initial RVE conformation is based on the resting conformation of MscL in detergent which may be determined using HOLE program employing a spherical probe.¹⁹