Stochastic simulations of mixed-lipid compartments: From self-assembling vesicles to self-producing protocells

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 696, Issue , 2011, Pages 689-696

  Ruiz Mirazo, Kepa ^b   Piedrafita, Gabriel ^b   Ciriaco, Fulvio ^b   Mavelli, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Lipid mixtures; Osmotic crisis; Protocells; Self assembly; Self production; Stochastic kinetics; Vesicles

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; FATTY ACID; LIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID; MEMBRANE LIPID;

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYNAMICS; LIPID VESICLE; LIPOGENESIS; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCELL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERMEABILITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; KINETICS; LIPIDS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 79957979345     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7046-6_70     Document Type: Conference Paper

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