Multiscale Simulations of Biological Membranes: The Challenge To Understand Biological Phenomena in a Living Substance.

ABSTRACT: Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by nonequilibrium conditions. Because of all of these features, simulations are a great technique to study biomembrane behavior. A significant part of the functional processes in biological membranes takes place at the molecular level; thus computer simulations are the method of choice to explore how their properties emerge from specific molecular features and how the interplay among the numerous molecules gives rise to function over spatial and time scales larger than the molecular ones. In this review, we focus on this broad theme. We discuss the current state-of-the-art of biomembrane simulations that, until now,

SUBMITTER: Enkavi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6727218 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature