These simulations can provide afflue

These simulations can provide affluent details about the hydration, fluidity, diffusivity and structura order of the lipid bilayer. There has been quite a number of atomistic and coarse grained MD studies focused at the characterization of lipid bilayers composed of various kinds of lipid chains (saturated, unsaturated, and polyunsaturated chains) [19,33,37], cholesterol[38] and membrane proteins [36]. However, theoretical studies dedicated towards understanding the influence of mechanical forces on the lipid bilayer structure and physical properties are scarce [21], especially for the DOPC lipid. In this study, we have used MD simulations to determine the effect of membrane tension on following physical properties of the DOPC lipid bilayer: polarity,fluidity, thickness, diffusivity and structural order of lipid molecules. Computational data were analyzed in terms of a few well defined parameters, such as lipid bilayer thickness, area per lipid, volume, hydration depth, hydration thickness, structural order parameters and diffusion coefficients.