Simulation model for functionalized vesicles: Lipid-peptide integration in minimal protocells

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4648 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 32-41

  Ruiz Mirazo, Kepa ^a   Mavelli, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autocatalysis; Lipid peptide protocells; Osmotic crisis; Self assembly; Stochastic kinetics (Gillespie method); Vesicle reproduction

Indexed keywords

CELL GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSMOSIS; PEPTIDES; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

AUTOCATALYSIS; LIPID-PEPTIDE PROTOCELLS; OSMOTIC CRISIS; STOCHASTIC KINETICS; VESICLE REPRODUCTION;

LIPIDS;

EID: 38049042783     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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