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Continuum descriptions of membranes and their interaction with proteins: Towards chemically accurate models.

ABSTRACT: Biological membranes deform in response to resident proteins leading to a coupling between membrane shape and protein localization. Additionally, the membrane influences the function of membrane proteins. Here we review contributions to this field from continuum elastic membrane models focusing on the class of models that couple the protein to the membrane. While it has been argued that continuum models cannot reproduce the distortions observed in fully-atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, we suggest that this failure can be overcome by using chemically accurate representations of the protein. We outline our recent advances along these lines with our hybrid continuum-atomistic model, and we show the model is in excellent agreement with fully-atomistic simulations of the nhTMEM16 lipid scramblase. We believe that the speed and accuracy of continuum-atomistic methodologies will make it possible to simulate large scale, slow biological processes, such as membrane morphological changes, that are currently beyond the scope of other computational approaches. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Membrane Proteins edited by J.C. Gumbart and Sergei Noskov.

SUBMITTER: Argudo D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4877259 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Continuum descriptions of membranes and their interaction with proteins: Towards chemically accurate models.

Argudo David D Bethel Neville P NP Marcoline Frank V FV Grabe Michael M

Biochimica et biophysica acta 20160204 7 Pt B

Biological membranes deform in response to resident proteins leading to a coupling between membrane shape and protein localization. Additionally, the membrane influences the function of membrane proteins. Here we review contributions to this field from continuum elastic membrane models focusing on the class of models that couple the protein to the membrane. While it has been argued that continuum models cannot reproduce the distortions observed in fully-atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, ...[more]

PMID: 26853937

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Continuum descriptions of membranes and their interaction with proteins: Towards chemically accurate models.

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