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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-10-28
pubmed:abstractText
Membranes composed of bipolar tetraether lipids have been studied by a series of 25-ns molecular dynamics simulations to understand the microscopic structure and dynamics as well as membrane area elasticity. By comparing macrocyclic and acyclic tetraether and diether archaeal lipids, the effect of tail linkage of the two phytanyl-chained lipids on the membrane properties is elucidated. Tetraether lipids show smaller molecular area and lateral mobility. For the latter, calculated diffusion coefficients are indeed one order-of-magnitude smaller than that of the diether lipid. These two tetraether membranes are alike in many physical properties except for membrane area elasticity. The macrocyclic tetraether membrane shows a higher elastic area expansion modulus than its acyclic counterpart by a factor of three. Free energy profiles of a water molecule crossing the membranes show no major difference in barrier height; however, a significant difference is observed near the membrane center due to the lack of the slip-plane in tetraether membranes.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0006-3495
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
89
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3195-202
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Archaea, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Biophysics, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Carbon, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Cell Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Computer Simulation, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Diffusion, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Elasticity, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Electrons, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Lipid Bilayers, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Lipids, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Membrane Fluidity, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Membrane Lipids, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Membranes, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Models, Chemical, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Models, Statistical, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Molecular Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Software, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Thermodynamics, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:16100279-Water
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Molecular dynamics study of bipolar tetraether lipid membranes.
pubmed:affiliation
Research Institute for Computational Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan. w.shinoda@aist.go.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't