Mesoscopic models of biological membranes

M Venturoli, MM Sperotto, M Kranenburg, B Smit - Physics reports, 2006 - Elsevier
Phospholipids are the main components of biological membranes and dissolved in water
these molecules self-assemble into closed structures, of which bilayers are the most relevant …

Kinetic control of shape deformations and membrane phase separation inside giant vesicles

WC Su, JCS Ho, DL Gettel, AT Rowland, CD Keating… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
A variety of cellular processes use liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) to create functional
levels of organization, but the kinetic pathways by which it proceeds remain incompletely …

Phase behavior of multicomponent membranes: Experimental and computational techniques

L Bagatolli, PBS Kumar - Soft Matter, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent developments in biology seems to indicate that the Fluid Mosaic model of membrane
proposed by Singer and Nicolson, with lipid bilayer functioning only as medium to support …

Effect of line tension on the lateral organization of lipid membranes

AJ García-Sáez, S Chiantia, P Schwille - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2007 - ASBMB
The principles of organization and functioning of cellular membranes are currently not well
understood. The raft hypothesis suggests the existence of domains or rafts in cell …

Morphology and interaction between lipid domains

TS Ursell, WS Klug, R Phillips - Proceedings of the National …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Cellular membranes are a heterogeneous mix of lipids, proteins and small molecules.
Special groupings enriched in saturated lipids and cholesterol form liquid-ordered domains …

Designing synthetic vesicles that engulf nanoscopic particles

KA Smith, D Jasnow, AC Balazs - The Journal of chemical physics, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
We examine the interaction of a lipid bilayer membrane with a spherical particle in solution
using dissipative particle dynamics, with the aim of controlling the passage of foreign objects …

Growth dynamics of domains in ternary fluid vesicles

M Yanagisawa, M Imai, T Masui, S Komura, T Ohta - Biophysical Journal, 2007 - cell.com
We have studied the growth dynamics of domains on ternary fluid vesicles composed of
saturated (dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine), unsaturated (dioleoylphosphatidylcholine) …

Construction of asymmetric cell-sized lipid vesicles from lipid-coated water-in-oil microdroplets

T Hamada, Y Miura, Y Komatsu… - The journal of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
We present a simple, rapid, and robust method for preparing asymmetric cell-sized lipid
bilayer vesicles using water-in-oil (W/O) microdroplets transferred through an oil− water …

[PDF][PDF] 耗散粒子动力学方法在生物学领域的应用与研究进展: 从蛋白质结构到细胞力学

唐梓涵, 李学进, 李德昌 - 科学通报, 2023 - researchgate.net
摘要耗散粒子动力学(dissipative particle dynamics, DPD) 是近年发展起来的一种介观尺度的
数值模拟方法, 是研究软物质和复杂流体动力学行为的一种重要手段. 这种新型介观模拟方法 …

A finite element approach to incompressible two-phase flow on manifolds

I Nitschke, A Voigt, J Wensch - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - cambridge.org
A two-phase Newtonian surface fluid is modelled as a surface Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokes
equation using a stream function formulation. This allows one to circumvent the subtleties in …