Elastic modeling of biomembranes and lipid bilayers

FLH Brown - Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2008 - annualreviews.org
The simulation of biological membranes over length and time scales relevant to cellular
biology is not currently feasible using conventional (fully atomic or molecularly detailed) …

Mesoscale computational studies of membrane bilayer remodeling by curvature-inducing proteins

N Ramakrishnan, PBS Kumar, R Radhakrishnan - Physics reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Biological membranes constitute boundaries of cells and cell organelles. These membranes
are soft fluid interfaces whose thermodynamic states are dictated by bending moduli …

Nanoscale scaffolding domains within the postsynaptic density concentrate synaptic AMPA receptors

HD MacGillavry, Y Song, S Raghavachari, TA Blanpied - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Scaffolding molecules at the postsynaptic membrane form the foundation of excitatory
synaptic transmission by establishing the architecture of the postsynaptic density (PSD), but …

Lipid and Peptide Diffusion in Bilayers: The Saffman–Delbrück Model and Periodic Boundary Conditions

RM Venable, HI Ingólfsson, MG Lerner… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The periodic Saffman–Delbrück (PSD) model, an extension of the Saffman–Delbrück
model developed to describe the effects of periodic boundary conditions on the diffusion …

[HTML][HTML] Strong influence of periodic boundary conditions on lateral diffusion in lipid bilayer membranes

BA Camley, MG Lerner, RW Pastor… - The Journal of chemical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The Saffman-Delbrück hydrodynamic model for lipid-bilayer membranes is modified to
account for the periodic boundary conditions commonly imposed in molecular simulations …

Correlated diffusion of membrane proteins and their effect on membrane viscosity

N Oppenheimer, H Diamant - Biophysical Journal, 2009 - cell.com
We extend the Saffman theory of membrane hydrodynamics to account for the correlated
motion of membrane proteins, along with the effect of protein concentration on that …

Continuum simulations of biomembrane dynamics and the importance of hydrodynamic effects

FLH Brown - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2011 - cambridge.org
Traditional particle-based simulation strategies are impractical for the study of lipid bilayers
and biological membranes over the longest length and time scales (microns, seconds and …

Systems biology and physical biology of clathrin-mediated endocytosis

V Ramanan, NJ Agrawal, J Liu, S Engles… - Integrative …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
In this review, we describe the application of experimental data and modeling of intracellular
endocytic trafficking mechanisms with a focus on the process of clathrin-mediated …

Hybrid Elastic and Discrete-Particle Approach to Biomembrane Dynamics<? format?> with Application to the Mobility of Curved Integral Membrane Proteins

A Naji, PJ Atzberger, FLH Brown - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We introduce a simulation strategy to consistently couple continuum biomembrane
dynamics to the motion of discrete biological macromolecules residing within or on the …

Particle motion nearby rough surfaces

C Kurzthaler, L Zhu, AA Pahlavan, HA Stone - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
We study the hydrodynamic coupling between particles and solid, rough boundaries
characterized by random surface textures. Using the Lorentz reciprocal theorem, we derive …