Cholesterol flip-flop: Insights from free energy simulation studies

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 114, Issue 42, 2010, Pages 13342-13348

  Jo, Sunhwan ^a   Rui, Huan ^a   Lim, Joseph B ^b   Klauda, Jeffery B ^b   Im, Wonpil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; ENERGY BARRIERS; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; FREE ENERGY; LIPIDS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; BI-LAYER; DESOLVATION; ENTROPIC CONTRIBUTIONS; FREE ENERGY SIMULATIONS; HYDROXYL GROUPS; LIPID DYNAMICS; STRING METHODS; UMBRELLA SAMPLING; WATER INTERACTIONS;

CHOLESTEROL;

EID: 77958498212     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp108166k     Document Type: Article

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