Free energetics of arginine permeation into model DMPC lipid bilayers: Coupling of effective counterion concentration and lateral bilayer dimensions

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 11641-11653

  Hu, Yuan ^a   Ou, Shuching ^a   Patel, Sandeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CELL MEMBRANES; ESTIMATION; FREE ENERGY; IONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PEPTIDES;

ADAPTIVE BIASING FORCES; ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CELL-PENETRATING PEPTIDE; CELLULAR MEMBRANES; COMPUTER EXPERIMENT; FREE-ENERGY CALCULATIONS; POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE; POTENTIALS OF MEAN FORCES;

LIPID BILAYERS;

ARGININE; CELL PENETRATING PEPTIDE; CHLORIDE; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; ION; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARGININE; CELL-PENETRATING PEPTIDES; CHLORIDES; DIFFUSION; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; IONS; LIPID BILAYERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 84885146622     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp404829y     Document Type: Article

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