West, Beate: Lipid-protein interactions in lipid membranes. 2008
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Theories on Lipid-Protein Interactions
- Mean Field Theory
- Landau-de Gennes Theory
- Elastic Theory
- Elastic Theory with Local Tilt
- Integral Equation Theory
- Chain Packing Theory
- Theory of Fluctuation-Induced Interactions
- Conclusions
- Coarse-Grained Model
- Methods
- Characteristics of a Pure Lipid Bilayer
- Lipid Bilayer with One Protein in the Fluid Phase
- Bilayer Deformation
- Influence of the System Size on the Thickness Profile
- Comparison between Different Protein Diameters
- Protein with Tilt
- Calculation of the Free Energy Using Thermodynamic Integration
- Conclusions
- Lipid Bilayer with Two Proteins in the Fluid Phase
- Effective Interaction between Two Proteins
- Bilayer Deformation
- Comparison between Different Protein Diameters
- Protein with Tilt
- Conclusions
- Conclusions and Outlook
- System Size Dependence of the Tension Profile
- Calculation of the Free Energy in the Elastic Theory
- Collection of System Characteristics
- Additional Figures