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SUBMITTER: Kahana A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9325298 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kahana Amit A Lancet Doron D Palmai Zoltan Z
Life (Basel, Switzerland) 20220624 7
Mixed lipid micelles were proposed to facilitate life through their documented growth dynamics and catalytic properties. Our previous research predicted that micellar self-reproduction involves catalyzed accretion of lipid molecules by the residing lipids, leading to compositional homeostasis. Here, we employ atomistic Molecular Dynamics simulations, beginning with 54 lipid monomers, tracking an entire course of micellar accretion. This was done to examine the self-assembly of variegated lipid c ...[more]