Computational Modeling of Membrane Bilayers

Current Topics in Membranes provides a systematic, comprehensive, and rigorous approach to specific topics relevant to the study of cellular membranes. Each volume is a guest edited compendium of membrane biology.

Discusses the current state of electrostatics in biomolecular simulations and future directionsIncludes information on time and length scales in lipid bilayer simulationsIncludes a chapter on the nature of lipid rafts

Chapter 1: Considerations for Lipid Force Field Development
Jeffery B. Klauda, Richard M. Venable, Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr. , and Richard W. Pastor

Chapter 2: Electrostatics in Biomolecular Simulations: Where Are We Now and Where We Are Headed
Mikko Karttunen, Jorg Rottler, Ilpo Vattulainen, and Celeste Sagui

Chapter 3: Time and Length Scales in Lipid Bilayer Simulations
Olle Edholm

Chapter 4: Molecular dynamics simulation of lipid-protein interactions
Nicolas Sapay and D. Peter Tieleman

Chapter 5: Implicit Modeling of Membranes
Alan Grossfield

Chapter 6: Blue Matter: Scaling of N-Body Simulations to One Atom per Node
Blake G. Fitch, Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, Maria Eleftheriou, T.J. Christopher Ward, Mark Giampapa, Michael C. Pitman, Jed Pitera, William C. Swope, and Robert S. Germain

Chapter 7: Multiscale Simulation of Membranes and Membrane Proteins: Connecting Molecular Interactions to Mesoscopic Behavior
Gary S. Ayton, Sergei Izvekov, W. G. Noid , and Gregory A. Voth

Chapter 8: Small Molecule Interactions with Lipid Bilayers
Peter Tieleman and Justin MacCollum

Chapter 9: On the nature of lipid rafts: Insights from molecularly detailed simulations of model biological membranes containing mixtures of cholesterol and phospholipids
Max Berkowitz

Chapter 10: Atomistic and Mean Field Simulations of Lateral Organization in Membranes
Sagar A Pandit, See-wing Chiu, Eric Jakobsson, and Larry Scott

Chapter 11: Molecular modeling of the structural properties and formation of high-density lipoprotein particles
Amy Y. Shih, Peter L. Freddolino, Anton Arkhipov, Stephen G. Sligar, and Klaus Schulten

Chapter 12: Gas Conduction of Lipid Bilayers and Membrane Channels
Yi Wang, Y. Zenmei Ohkubo and Emad Tajkhorshid

Chapter 13: An introduction to voltage-gated K+ channels
Benoit Roux

Chapter 14: Computational Models for Electrified Interfaces
Elizabeth J Denning and Thomas B Woolf

Chapter 15: Charged protein side chain movement in lipid bilayers explored with free energy
simulation
Libo Li, Igor Vorobyov, Sudha Dorairaj and Toby W. Allen