Materials perspective on Casimir and van der Waals interactions

LM Woods, DAR Dalvit, A Tkatchenko… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir
forces, are of universal nature present at any length scale between any types of systems …

Mechanical properties of lipid bilayers from molecular dynamics simulation

RM Venable, FLH Brown, RW Pastor - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 2015 - Elsevier
Lipid areas (A ℓ), bilayer area compressibilities (KA), bilayer bending constants (KC), and
monolayer spontaneous curvatures (c 0) from simulations using the CHARMM36 force field …

[HTML][HTML] Spontaneous curvature, differential stress, and bending modulus of asymmetric lipid membranes

A Hossein, M Deserno - Biophysical Journal, 2020 - cell.com
Lipid bilayers can exhibit asymmetric states, in which the physical characteristics of one
leaflet differ from those of the other. This most visibly manifests in a different lipid …

Coupling of mechanical deformation and electromagnetic fields in biological cells

M Torbati, K Mozaffari, L Liu, P Sharma - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
The cell, as the most fundamental unit of life, is a microcosm of biology in which the
confluence of nearly all aspects of classical physics (mechanics, statistical physics …

[HTML][HTML] The 2018 biomembrane curvature and remodeling roadmap

P Bassereau, R Jin, T Baumgart… - Journal of physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The importance of curvature as a structural feature of biological membranes has been
recognized for many years and has fascinated scientists from a wide range of different …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial lipid membranes: Past, present, and future

CG Siontorou, GP Nikoleli, DP Nikolelis, SK Karapetis - Membranes, 2017 - mdpi.com
The multifaceted role of biological membranes prompted early the development of artificial
lipid-based models with a primary view of reconstituting the natural functions in vitro so as to …

Theory of defect-mediated morphogenesis

LA Hoffmann, LN Carenza, J Eckert, L Giomi - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Growing experimental evidence indicates that topological defects could serve as organizing
centers in the morphogenesis of tissues. Here, we provide a quantitative explanation for this …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane-mediated protein interactions drive membrane protein organization

Y Jiang, B Thienpont, V Sapuru, RK Hite… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The plasma membrane's main constituents, ie, phospholipids and membrane proteins, are
known to be organized in lipid-protein functional domains and supercomplexes. No active …

[HTML][HTML] Cholesterol stiffening of lipid membranes

FT Doole, T Kumarage, R Ashkar, MF Brown - The Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Springer
Biomembrane order, dynamics, and other essential physicochemical parameters are
controlled by cholesterol, a major component of mammalian cell membranes. Although …

What can machine learning do for antimicrobial peptides, and what can antimicrobial peptides do for machine learning?

EY Lee, MW Lee, BM Fulan, AL Ferguson… - Interface …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a diverse class of well-studied membrane-permeating
peptides with important functions in innate host defense. In this short review, we provide a …