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Cellular wrapping of elastic particles by a supported lipid membrane
Amir Khosravanizadeh, Pierre Sens, Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee
Constancy of life vitally depends on the internalization of particles through biomembranes. Of particular interest, cellular uptake, including phagocytosis, receptor-mediated endoc…
Role of particle local curvature in cellular wrapping
Amir Khosravanizadeh, Pierre Sens, Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee
Cellular uptake through the lipid membranes plays an important role in adsorbing nutrients and fighting infection and can be used for drug delivery and nanomedicine developments. E…
Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis of a Cylindrical Nanoparticle in the Presence of Cytoskeleton Substrate
Amir Khosravanizadeh, Pierre Sens, Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee
Internalization of particles by cells plays a crucial role for adsorbing nutrients and fighting infection. Endocytosis is one of the most important mechanisms of the particles upta…
On the effective charge of hydrophobic polyelectrolytes
Alexei Chepelianskii, Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee, Elie Raphael
In this paper we analyze the behavior of hydrophobic polyelectrolytes. It has been proposed that this system adopts a pearl-necklace structure reminiscent of the Rayleigh instabili…
Anisotropic Elastic Model for Short DNA Loops
G. Bijani, N. Hamedani Radja, F. Mohammad-Rafiee +1
Effect of bending anisotropy on a planar DNA loop, using energy minimization and neglecting entropic effects, is studied. We show that the anisotropy results in polygonal shape of…
Electrostatic Contribution to Twist Rigidity of DNA
Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee, Ramin Golestanian
The electrostatic contribution to twist rigidity of DNA is studied, and it is shown that the Coulomb self-energy of the double-helical sugar-phosphate backbone contributes consider…