Carbon nanodots (CNDs) are the latest and most shining rising stars among
photoluminescent (PL) nanomaterials. These carbon-based surface-passivated …

Cell membranes contain a large variety of lipid types and are crowded with proteins,
endowing them with the plasticity needed to fulfill their key roles in cell functioning. The …

The AMBER lipid force field has been updated to create Lipid14, allowing tensionless
simulation of a number of lipid types with the AMBER MD package. The modular nature of …

An all-atomistic force field (FF) has been developed for fully saturated phospholipids. The
parametrization has been largely based on high-level ab initio calculations in order to keep …

Introduction Class I cytokines regulate key processes such as growth, lactation,
hematopoiesis, and immune function and contribute to oncogenesis. Although the …

Cellular uptake through endocytosis is crucial for drug delivery and nanomedicine.
However, the conditions under which passive endocytosis (ie, not ATP driven) takes place …

Biological membranes are versatile in composition and host intriguing molecular processes.
In order to be able to study these systems, an accurate model Hamiltonian or force field (FF) …

A new simulation method, dissipative particle dynamics, is applied to model biological
membranes. In this method, several atoms are united into a single simulation particle. The …

The basic amino acids lysine (Lys) and arginine (Arg) play important roles in membrane
protein activity, the sensing of membrane voltages, and the actions of antimicrobial, toxin …

Lipid peroxidation plays an important role in cell membrane damage. We investigated the
effect of lipid peroxidation on the properties of 1-palmitoyl-2-linoleoyl-sn-glycero-3 …