Two decades of Martini: Better beads, broader scope

SJ Marrink, L Monticelli, MN Melo… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field for molecular dynamics simulations, has
been around for nearly two decades. Originally developed for lipid‐based systems by the …

Behavior of citrate-capped ultrasmall gold nanoparticles on a supported lipid bilayer interface at atomic resolution

R Kariuki, R Penman, SJ Bryant, R Orrell-Trigg… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterials have the potential to transform biological and biomedical research, with
applications ranging from drug delivery and diagnostics to targeted interference of specific …

Lipophilic Anchors that Embed Bioconjugates in Bilayer Membranes: A Review

RS Gamage, JL Chasteen, BD Smith - Bioconjugate chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
A wide range of biomaterials and engineered cell surfaces are composed of bioconjugates
embedded in liposome membranes, surface-immobilized bilayers, or the plasma …

Machine Learning Assisted Clustering of Nanoparticle Structures

C Roncaglia, R Ferrando - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We propose a scheme for the automatic separation (ie, clustering) of data sets composed of
several nanoparticle (NP) structures by means of Machine Learning techniques. These data …

Ion-bridges and lipids drive aggregation of same-charge nanoparticles on lipid membranes

E Lavagna, D Bochicchio, AL De Marco, ZP Güven… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The control of the aggregation of biomedical nanoparticles (NP) in physiological conditions
is crucial as clustering may change completely the way they interact with the biological …

Particle deformability enables control of interactions between membrane-anchored nanoparticles

N Nambiar, ZA Loyd, SM Abel - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles adsorbed on a membrane can induce deformations of the membrane that
give rise to effective interactions between the particles. Previous studies have focused …

Connexins and Pannexins—Similarities and Differences According to the FOD-M Model

I Roterman, K Stapor, P Fabian, L Konieczny - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Connexins and pannexins are the transmembrane proteins of highly distinguished
biological activity in the form of transport of molecules and electrical signals. Their common …

Cholesterol‐Containing Liposomes Decorated With Au Nanoparticles as Minimal Tunable Fusion Machinery

E Canepa, D Bochicchio, G Brosio, PHJ Silva… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Membrane fusion is essential for the basal functionality of eukaryotic cells. In physiological
conditions, fusion events are regulated by a wide range of specialized proteins, operating …

Amphiphilic gold nanoparticles: a biomimetic tool to gain mechanistic insights into peptide-lipid interactions

E Canepa, A Relini, D Bochicchio, E Lavagna… - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Functional peptides are now widely used in a myriad of biomedical and clinical contexts,
from cancer therapy and tumor targeting to the treatment of bacterial and viral infections …

Membrane-mediated interactions between arc-shaped particles strongly depend on membrane curvature

F Bonazzi, TR Weikl - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.04027, 2024 - arxiv.org
Besides direct molecular interactions, proteins and nanoparticles embedded in or adsorbed
to membranes experience indirect interactions that are mediated by the membranes. These …