Transition path from two apposed membranes to a stalk obtained by a combination of particle simulations and string method

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Müller, Marcus ^a   Smirnova, Yuliya G ^a   Marelli, Giovanni ^a   Fuhrmans, Marc ^a   Shi, An Chang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; COARSE-GRAINED; DIAGONALIZATIONS; EQUATION-FREE; EXCESS FREE ENERGY; HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE MODELS; ON-THE-FLY; ORDER-PARAMETER; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; REVERSIBLE TRANSITIONS; STRING METHODS; TRANSITION PATHS; TRANSITION STATE;

CELL MEMBRANES; MORPHOLOGY;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 84861832054     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.228103     Document Type: Article

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