Membrane lipids interact with proteins in a variety of ways, ranging from providing a stable membrane environment for proteins to being embedded in to detailed roles in complicated …
The success of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) in science and optoelectronics is inextricable from their surfaces. The functionalization of lead halide perovskite NCs,,,–poses …
The cellular membrane constitutes one of the most fundamental compartments of a living cell, where key processes such as selective transport of material and exchange of …
Molecular simulation is a powerful computational tool for a broad range of applications including the examination of materials properties and accelerating drug discovery. At the …
M Javanainen, P Heftberger, JJ Madsen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cholesterol is a central building block in biomembranes, where it induces orientational order, slows diffusion, renders the membrane stiffer, and drives domain formation. Molecular …
Membrane ion channels are the fundamental electrical components in the nervous system. Recent developments in X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM microscopy have revealed what …
T Róg, I Vattulainen - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 2014 - Elsevier
Lipids rafts are considered to be functional nanoscale membrane domains enriched in cholesterol and sphingolipids, characteristic in particular of the external leaflet of cell …
M Manna, M Niemelä, J Tynkkynen, M Javanainen… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
There is evidence that lipids can be allosteric regulators of membrane protein structure and activation. However, there are no data showing how exactly the regulation emerges from …
TJ Piggot, JR Allison, RB Sessions… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
For molecular dynamics simulations of biological membrane systems to live up to the potential of providing accurate atomic level detail into membrane properties and functions, it …