Structure of spheroidal HDL particles revealed by combined atomistic and coarse-grained simulations

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2306-2319

  Catte, Andrea ^a,b   Patterson, James C ^a   Bashtovyy, Denys ^a   Jones, Martin K ^a   Gu, Feifei ^a   Li, Ng ^a   Rampioni, Aldo ^c   Sengupta, Durba ^c   Vuorela, Timo ^b   Niemela, Perttu ^d   Karttunen, Mikko ^e   Marrink, Siewert Jan ^c   Vattulainen, Ilpo ^b,d,f   Segrest, Jere P ^a,g  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; SOLVENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; HUMAN; LIPID BILAYER; LIVER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEIN A-I; BIOPHYSICS; CHOLESTEROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOLVENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 44049107643     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.115857     Document Type: Article

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