Cytoskeleton mediated effective elastic properties of model red blood cell membranes
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Cytoskeleton mediated effective elastic properties of model red blood cell membranes.
The plasma membrane of human red blood cells consists of a lipid bilayer attached to a regular network of underlying cytoskeletal polymers. We model this system at a dynamic coarse-grained level, treating the bilayer as an elastic sheet and the cytoskeletal network as a series of phantom entropic springs. In contrast to prior simulation efforts, we explicitly account for dynamics of the cytoske...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.2958268