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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Phys Lipids. 2015 Jul 31;192:60–74. doi: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.07.014

Table 5.

Bending constants KC from simulation (in three different units) and four different experimental method (all in J); standard errors for the simulations are given in parentheses.

Lipid Simulation
kBT kcal/mol Experiment (10−20 J)
10−20 J PAa X-ray NSEb Flicker
DPPC 15.8 (0.4) 35.4 22.7 6.7d 15.0i
DMPC 12.2 (0.5) 29.3 17.6 5.6c 6.6e 8.2h 13.0i
DOPC 11.8 (0.4) 28.8 17.0 8.5c 8.3f 10.9j
DNPC 22.0 (0.7) 52.6 31.7
DOPE 11.8 (0.3) 28.7 17.0
POPC 13.2 (0.4) 31.7 19.1 8.5g 8.6h
PDPC 9.6 (0.1) 23.1 13.9
POPE 13.3 (0.6) 31.2 19.2
PDPE 9.9 (0.6) 23.6 14.2
SDPE 10.6 (0.4) 25.4 15.3
PSM 27.8 (0.8) 62.7 40.0
POPG 11.3 (0.6) 26.9 16.2
a

pipette aspiration (PA)

b

neutron spin echo (NSE)

d

(Guler et al., 2009)

e

(Kučerka et al., 2005)

g

(Kucerka et al., 2005)

h

(Mell et al., 2013)

i

(Fernandezpuente et al., 1994)

j

(Gracia et al., 2010).