Local Changes in Lipid Composition to Match Membrane Curvature
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Local Changes in Lipid Composition to Match Membrane Curvature
A continuum mechanical model based on the Helfrich Hamiltonian is devised to investigate the coupling between lipid composition andmembrane curvature. Eachmonolayer in the bilayer is modeled as a freely deformable surface with a director field for lipid orientation. A scalar field for the mole fraction of two lipid types accounts for local changes in composition. It allows lipids to access mono...
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عنوان ژورنال: Computational and Mathematical Biophysics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2544-7297
DOI: 10.1515/mlbmb-2016-0003