Fig. 7.

The effect of increasing the fraction of oxidized lipids in SAPE and SAPC bilayer membranes on the physical and mechanical membrane properties. The effect of increasing the fraction of oxidized lipids in SAPE and SAPC bilayer membranes was revealed by coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. (A) Area per lipid, computed by dividing the simulation box area by the number of lipids in the system. (B) Bilayer thickness computed on the basis of location of head-group particles between the two monolayers. (C) The elastic moduli estimated by simulated membrane stretching.