Elasticity of Lipid Bilayer Interacting with Amphiphilic Helical Peptides
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Amphiphilic helical peptides exhibit an insertion transition when they interact with lipid bilayers. At low concentrations, the peptides adsorb at the hydrophilic-hydrophobic interface with the helical axes parallel to the bilayer surface. However, if the peptide concentration is above a critical value, a macroscopic fraction of the peptide molecules insert perpendicularly into the bilayer. The existence of a critical concentration for insertion is crucial to the peptides biological function. This phenomena can be understood in terms of the conventional theory of elasticity for a lipid bilayer.
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