Dynamics Studies of Lipid Bilayers

Tieleman, D. P., Marrink, S. J., and Berendsen, H. J. C., A computer perspective of membranes molecular dynamics studies of lipid bilayer systems, Biochim. Biophys. Acta., 1997, 3333, 235-270. 

Water-membrane interfaces are discussed separately in this volume (see Environment of a Membrane Protein Molecular Dynamics Studies of Lipid Bilayers and Permeation of Lipid Membranes Molecular Dynamics Simulations). 

Fluctuations of interfaces are directly relevant to a number of interfacial phenomena. One example, ion transfer across a liquid-liquid interface, will be discussed in Section 6.1. Another example is the behavior of monolayers of surfactants on water surfaces. Surface fluctuations are also fundamental to several processes in water-membrane systems, such as unassisted ion transport across lipid bilayers and the hydration forces acting between two membranes. Here, however, the problem is more complicated because not only capillary waves but also bending motions of the whole bilayer have to be taken into account. Furthermore, the concept of the surface tension is less clear in this case. This topic is discussed in Molecular Dynamics Studies of Lipid Bilayers. 

Dynamics Studies of Lipid Bilayers Molecular Surfaces and... 

Usually refers to a method of solving Newton s equations of classical mechanics numerically, in order to propagate the positions and velocities of a system of molecules forward in time and thus to explore the phase space of the system. See Molecular Dynamics and Hybrid Monte Carlo in Systems with Multiple Time Scales and Long-range Forces Reference System Propagator Algorithms Molecular Dynamics DMA Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nucleic Acids Molecular Dynamics Studies of Lipid Bilayers and Molecular Dynamics Techniques and Applications to Proteins. 

Molecular Dynamics DNA Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nucleic Acids Molecular Dynamics Studies of Lipid Bilayers Molecular Dynamics Techniques and Applications to Proteins. 

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