The bilayer-vesicle transition in entropy driven
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The transition of self-assembled bilayer membrane by various kinds of computer techniques using coarse-grained molecular dynamics was performed. The bilayer-vesicles transition is driven by minimization of the edge energy and our simulations, which include solvent particles show an increase in the potential energy of the system during the transition implicating that the transition is entropy driven.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2005
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A detailed look at vesicle fusion
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Coarse-grained molecular dynamics are used to monitor the vesicle fusion, a mechanism of lipid rearrangement, over a relatively long time span. The results have demonstrated that stalk is initiated by lipid tails that extend spontaneously, its evolution can proceed via both pathways starting from similar setups and water triggers the transition from elongated stalk to hemifusion diaphragm.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2006
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Lipid-based mechanisms for vesicle fission
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The study of fission of lipid vesicles is carried out on the basis of asymmetrical distribution of lipid within the membrane. The asymmetric pathway involving a difference in composition between the two monolayers requires smaller lipid differences for fission than separation of lipids over the leaflets of the membrane.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2007
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