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SUBMITTER: Fitzgerald JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111272 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fitzgerald James E JE Venable Richard M RM Pastor Richard W RW Lyman Edward R ER
Biophysical journal 20230204 6
Lipid membrane viscosity is critical to biological function. Bacterial cells grown in different environments alter their lipid composition in order to maintain a specific viscosity, and membrane viscosity has been linked to the rate of cellular respiration. To understand the factors that determine the viscosity of a membrane, we ran equilibrium all-atom simulations of single component lipid bilayers and calculated their viscosities. The viscosity was calculated via a Green-Kubo relation, with th ...[more]