A computer perspective of membranes: Molecular dynamics studies of lipid bilayer systems

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Biomembranes

Volumn 1331, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 235-270

  Tieleman, D P ^a   Marrink, S J ^a   Berendsen, H J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FORCE; ION TRANSPORT; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE;

1,2-DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 0031438285     PISSN: 03044157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4157(97)00008-7     Document Type: Review

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