Functional and Mechanical Properties of Biological Soft Matter
Mean curvature and Gaussian curvature of a DOPC/DOPG membrane
It is crucial to identify basic structures’ functional and mechanical properties, such as peptides, DNAs, and membranes(bilayer or monolayer), to understand mechanisms of various biological functions at molecular scales. We have been developing theoretical models of these structures to investigate their mechanical properties and interactions between those structures.
Publications
Molecular dynamics simulation study of a pulmonary surfactant film interacting with a carbonaceous nanoparticle
This article reports an all-atom molecular dynamics simulation to study a model pulmonary surfactant film interacting with a …
A continuum method for determining membrane protein insertion energies and the problem of charged residues
Continuum electrostatic approaches have been extremely successful at describing the charged nature of soluble proteins and how they …
Bending Elasticity of Anti-Parallel β-Sheets
Using a coarse-grained elastic model, we examine the bending properties of anti-parallel β-sheets comprised of uniform amino-acid …
The elasticity of α-helices
The elasticity of α-helices is examined using equilibrium molecular-dynamics simulations. From the statistics of curvatures and twists, …
