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Impact of Cholesterol on Voids in Phospholipid Membranes
Emma Falck, Michael Patra, Mikko Karttunen +2
Free volume pockets or voids are important to many biological processes in cell membranes. Free volume fluctuations are a prerequisite for diffusion of lipids and other macromolecu…
Under the influence of alcohol: The effect of ethanol and methanol on lipid bilayers
Michael Patra, Emppu Salonen, Emma Terama +4
Extensive microscopic molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to study the effects of short-chain alcohols, methanol and ethanol, on two different fully hydrated lipid b…
Structural Effects of Small Molecules on Phospholipid Bilayers Investigated by Molecular Simulations
Bryan W. Lee, Roland Faller, Amadeu K. Sum +3
We summarize and compare recent Molecular Dynamics simulations on the interactions of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayers in the liquid crystalline phase with a number o…
Coarse-Grained Model for Phospholipid/Cholesterol Bilayer
Teemu Murtola, Emma Falck, Michael Patra +2
We construct a coarse-grained (CG) model for dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC)/cholesterol bilayers and apply it to large-scale simulation studies of lipid membranes. Our CG mo…
Lessons of Slicing Membranes: Interplay of Packing, Free Area, and Lateral Diffusion in Phospholipid/Cholesterol Bilayers
Emma Falck, Michael Patra, Mikko Karttunen +2
We employ 100 ns molecular dynamics simulations to study the influence of cholesterol on structural and dynamic properties of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayers in the…