2005/01/30 by С. И. Мухин, Sergei I. Mukhin, Mukhin, Sergei I. +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior #Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0501721
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRL in October 2004
arxiv created 2005/01/30 · openalex publication_date 2005/01/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2022/09/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Field-theoretical method is proposed, that yields analytical expression for\nlateral pressure distribution across hydrophobic core of a bilayer lipid\nmembrane. Lipid molecule, repelling entropicaly surrounding neighbors, is\nmodeled as a flexible string embedded between confining walls in the\nself-consistent harmonic potential. At room temperature the pressure profile is\nexpressed solely via lowest energy eigenfunctions of the operator of the string\nenergy density. Analytical results compare favorably with molecular dynamics\nsimulations. The theory is suited to study protein-lipid interaction.\n