A guiding potential method for evaluating the bending rigidity of tensionless lipid membranes from molecular simulation

Shuhei Kawamoto; Takenobu Nakamura; Steven O. Nielsen; Wataru Shinoda

doi:10.1063/1.4811677

A guiding potential method for evaluating the bending rigidity of tensionless lipid membranes from molecular simulation

Shuhei Kawamoto, Takenobu Nakamura, Steven O. Nielsen, Wataru Shinoda

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A new method is proposed to estimate the bending rigidity of lipid membranes from molecular dynamics simulations. An external cylindrical guiding potential is used to impose a sinusoidal deformation to a planar membrane. The bending rigidity is obtained from the mean force acting on the cylinder by calibrating against a discretized Helfrich model that accounts for thermal fluctuations of the membrane surface. The method has been successfully applied to a dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine bilayer simulated with a coarse-grained model. A well-converged bending rigidity was obtained for the tension-free membrane and showed reasonable agreement with that obtained from the height fluctuation spectrum.

Original language	English
Article number	034108
Journal	Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume	139
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4811677
Publication status	Published - Jul 21 2013
Externally published	Yes

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