Table 2.
Composition of the membranes examined in this study. For each lipid composition, the estimated number of water molecules per phospholipid headgroup, , as well as the average number of electron per chain, , calculated with Equation (10), as explained in Section 4.5, are indicated.
| Sample | POPC (mol%) | Egg PC (mol%) | Egg PE (mol%) | Liver PI (mol%) | DOPS (mol%) | TOCL (mol%) | Cholesterol (mol%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POPC | 100 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | 245 |
| Mitochondria-like | – | 48 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 4.5 | 235.4 |
| Mitochondria-like | – | 38 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 4.5 | 235.9 |
| 10% cholesterol | |||||||||
| Mitochondria-like | – | 28 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 4.5 | 236.4 |
| 20% cholesterol | |||||||||
| Mitochondria-like | – | 18 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 30 | 4.5 | 236.9 |
| 30% cholesterol |