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SUMMARY:Coarse-grained Simulation Studies of Mesoscopic Membrane Phenomen
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CREATED:20091006T120000Z
DESCRIPTION:Lipid membranes exhibit a large spectrum of fascinating physi
 cal behavior\, spanning many orders of magnitude both in length- and tim
 e scales. To cover this wide range\, models of different resolution have
  been developed\, from atomistically resolved lipid representations to t
 riangulated fluid-elastic surfaces. In the intermediate regime of about 
 100 nanometer length scale and micro- to millisecond time scale mesoscop
 ic coarse-grained models have recently covered much ground. They can app
 roach phenomena in which cooperativity between several proteins are cruc
 ial\, while still preserving the essence of many lipid degrees of freedo
 m (area density\, order\, tilt\, composition\, etc.)\, whose coupling is
  deemed relevant in many biological situations\, notably the "raft quest
 ion". I will describe in more detail a particular solvent-free coarse-gr
 ained model recently developed by us and illustrate its applicability to
  a wide variety of phenomena\, among them pore-formation by amphipathic 
 peptides\, protein aggregation on critically mixed bilayers\, and membra
 ne vesiculation driven by curvature-imprinting proteins.
LAST-MODIFIED:20091006T120000Z
LOCATION:3269 Beckman Institute\, 405 N. Mathews Ave
CATEGORIES:Biophysics
CONTACT:Joyce Lucas 217-244-2212
ORGANIZER:jklucas7@illinois.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1968?key=2000010120000101144067
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