Université de Fribourg

Accurate estimation of membrane capacitance from atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of zwitterionic lipid bilayers

Ardham, Vikram Reddy ; Zoni, Valeria ; Adamowicz, Sylvain ; Campomanes, Pablo ; Vanni, Stefano

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020, vol. 124, no. 38, p. 8278–8286

Lipid membranes are indispensable to life, and they regulate countless cellular processes. To investigate the properties of membranes under controlled conditions, numerous reconstitution methods have been developed over the last few decades. Several of these methods result in the formation of lipid bilayers containing residual hydrophobic molecules between the two monolayers. These...