A Critical Comparison of Biomembrane Force Fields: Structure and Dynamics of Model DMPC, POPC, and POPE Bilayers

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 120, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 3888-3903

  Pluhackova, Kristyna ^a   Kirsch, Sonja A ^a   Han, Jing ^a   Sun, Liping ^a   Jiang, Zhenyan ^a   Unruh, Tobias ^a   Böckmann, Rainer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; LIPIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ALL-ATOM FORCE FIELD; ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASE TRANSITION; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE BILAYERS; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS;

LIPID BILAYERS;

1-PALMITOYL-2-OLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; 1-PALMITOYL-2-OLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LIPID BILAYER; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LIPID BILAYERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES;

EID: 84966270243     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b01870     Document Type: Article

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