Mammalian cell membranes are composed of a complex array of glycerophospholipids and
sphingolipids that vary in head-group and acyl-chain composition. In a given cell type …

Without any exaggeration, cholesterol is one of the most important lipid species in eukaryotic
cells. Its effects on cellular membranes and functions range from purely mechanistic to …

The basic amino acids lysine (Lys) and arginine (Arg) play important roles in membrane
protein activity, the sensing of membrane voltages, and the actions of antimicrobial, toxin …

To investigate the microscopic interactions between cholesterol and lipids in biological
membranes, we have performed a series of molecular dynamics simulations of large …

A coarse grain model for phospholipids was systematically parametrized to mimic structural
properties obtained from an atomistic simulation of a dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine bilayer …

We discuss the role coarse-grained models play in the investigation of the structure and
thermodynamics of bilayer membranes, and we place them in the context of alternative …

By using molecular dynamics simulation technique we studied the changes occurring in
membranes constructed of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and cholesterol at 8: 1 …

We employ 100-ns molecular dynamics simulations to study the influence of cholesterol on
structural and dynamic properties of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayers in the fluid …

The membrane of the red blood cell (RBC) consists of spectrin tetramers connected at actin
junctional complexes, forming a two-dimensional (2D) sixfold triangular network anchored to …

We derive an expression relating the static dielectric permittivity profile for a system
nonuniform in one dimension to correlations between the net system dipole moment and the …