3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Dialectics of antimicrobial peptides II: Theoretical models of pore formation and membrane protection
Oleg V. Kondrashov, Marta V. Volovik, Zaret G. Denieva +5
Amphipathic peptides are considered promising antibiotics because of their ability to form pores in bacterial membranes. In two companion papers, we analyzed both experimentally an…
cond-mat.soft2025
Dialectics of antimicrobial peptides I: common mechanisms of offensive and protecting roles of the peptides
Marta V. Volovik, Zaret G. Denieva, Oleg V. Kondrashov +2
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have intrigued researchers for decades due to the contradiction between their high potential against resistant bacteria and the inability to find a st…
physics.bio-ph2020
Additional contributions to elastic energy of lipid membranes: Tilt-curvature coupling and curvature gradient
Konstantin V. Pinigin, Peter I. Kuzmin, Sergey A. Akimov +1
Lipid bilayer membranes are flexible thin laterally fluid films consisting of two unimolecular layers of lipids. On spatial scales much larger than the bilayer thickness, the membr…