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SUBMITTER: Khelashvili G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3770052 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Khelashvili George G Kollmitzer Benjamin B Heftberger Peter P Pabst Georg G Harries Daniel D
Journal of chemical theory and computation 20130901 9
We establish a computational approach to extract the bending modulus, <i>K</i><sub><i>C</i></sub> , for lipid membranes from relatively small-scale molecular simulations. Fluctuations in the splay of individual pairs of lipids faithfully inform on <i>K</i><sub><i>C</i></sub> in multicomponent membranes over a large range of rigidities in different thermodynamic phases. Predictions are validated by experiments even where the standard spectral analysis-based methods fail. The local nature of this ...[more]