4 papers
Three-phase coexistence in binary charged lipid membranes in hypotonic solution
Jingyu Guo, Hiroaki Ito, Yuji Higuchi +3
We investigated the phase separation of dioleoylphosphatidylserine (DOPS) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) in giant unilamellar vesicles in hypotonic solution using fluore…
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation for uptake of nanoparticles into a charged lipid vesicle dominated by electrostatic interactions
Naofumi Shimokawa, Hiroaki Ito, Yuji Higuchi
We use a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation to investigate the interaction between neutral or charged nanoparticles (NPs) and a vesicle consisting of neutral and negative…
Nano-domain formation in charged membranes: Beyond Debye-Huckel approximation
Ryuichi Okamoto, Naofumi Shimokawa, Shigeyuki Komura
We investigate the microphase separation in a membrane composed of charged lipid, by taking into account explicitly the electrostatic potential and the ion densities in the surroun…
Phase diagrams and ordering in charged membranes: Binary mixtures of charged and neutral lipids
Naofumi Shimokawa, Hiroki Himeno, Tsutomu Hamada +3
We propose a model describing the phase behavior of two-component membranes consisting of binary mixtures of electrically charged and neutral lipids. We take into account the struc…