System: Simulations of POPC/POPS (5:1, 144 lipids in total) membranes with NaCl counterions. Number of POPS: 24. Number of POPC 120. Number of waters: 5760. Number of NaCl ions: 24 Lipid model: Amber Lipid 17 [IR Gould, AA Skjevik, CJ Dickson, BD Madej, RC Walker: "Lipid17: A Comprehensive AMBER Force Field for the Simulation of Zwitterionic and Anionic Lipids" in prep. (2018)]. Ion models: Amber ff99 [J Åqvist J. Phys. Chem. 94 8021 (1990)]. Water model: TIP3P [WL Jorgensen, J Chandrasekhar, JD Madura, RW Impey, ML Klein J. Chem. Phys. 79 926 (1983)]. Simulation engine: Amber16 [DA Case et al. AMBER 2017 UCSF (2017)]. Number of independent repeats per setup: 2. Trajectory lengths per repeat: 200 ns. Previously equilibrated for: 300 ns. Sampling rate: every 10 ps. Time integration step: 2 fs. Thermodynamic ensemble: NpT. Temperature coupling: 'Langevin' at T = 298 K. Pressure coupling: 'Berendsen' [J. Chem. Phys. 81 3684 (1984); J. Chem. Phys. 103 10252 (1995)] with xy and z coupled separately at p = 1.0 bar with no surface tension. Electrostatics: PME [J. Chem. Phys. 98 10089 (1993); J. Chem. Theory Comput. 9 3878 (2013)]. Van der Waals: Turned off between 1.0 nm and 1.5 nm. Constraints: Lengths of covalent bonds involving Hydrogens in lipids using SHAKE [J. Comput. Phys. 23 327 (1977)], in water using SETTLE [J. Comput. Chem. 13 952 (1992)]. Used in publications: OHS Ollila et al. "NMRlipids IV: Headgroup & glycerol backbone structures, and cation binding in bilayers with PS lipids" in prep (2018).

B.K acknowledges financial support from International Max Planck Research School on Multiscale Bio-Systems