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Mesoscopic Simulation of Cell Membrane Damage, Morphology Change and Rupture by Nonionic Surfactants

Robert D. Groot, +1 more
- 01 Aug 2001 - 
- Vol. 81, Iss: 2, pp 725-736
TLDR
Some simulations have been carried out to determine the rupture properties of mixed bilayers of phosphatidylethanolamine and C(12)E(6), and indicate that the area of a pure lipid bilayer can be increased by a factor 2, and why dividing cells are more at risk than static cells.
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This article is published in Biophysical Journal.The article was published on 2001-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 921 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bilayer & Lipid bilayer phase behavior.

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The MARTINI force field : Coarse grained model for biomolecular simulations

TL;DR: An improved and extended version of the coarse grained lipid model is presented, coined the MARTINI force field, based on the reproduction of partitioning free energies between polar and apolar phases of a large number of chemical compounds to reproduce the free energies of these chemical building blocks.
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Coarse grained model for semiquantitative lipid simulations

TL;DR: In this article, a coarse-grained (CG) model for lipid and surfactant systems is presented, where only a small number of coarse grained atom types interact using a few discrete levels of interaction.
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Graphene microsheets enter cells through spontaneous membrane penetration at edge asperities and corner sites

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Lipids on the move: simulations of membrane pores, domains, stalks and curves.

TL;DR: This review describes the state-of-the-art of computer simulation studies of lipid membranes, showing that many important biological processes including self-aggregation of membrane components into domains, the formation of non-lamellar phases, and membrane poration and curving, are now amenable to detailed simulation studies.
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Simulation of pore formation in lipid bilayers by mechanical stress and electric fields

TL;DR: Computer simulations of pore formation and membrane rupture of phospholipid bilayers under mechanical and electrical stress, on the nanosecond simulation time scale, are described.
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