標題: Pore-Spanning Lipid Membrane under Indentation by a Probe Tip: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study
作者: Huang, Chen-Hsi
Hsiao, Pai-Yi
Tseng, Fan-Gang
Fan, Shih-Kang
Fu, Chien-Chung
Pan, Rong-Long
材料科學與工程學系
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
公開日期: 4-十月-2011
摘要: We study the indentation of a free-standing lipid membrane suspended over a nanopore on a hydrophobic substrate by means of molecular dynamics simulations. We find that in the course of indentation the membrane bends at the point of contact and the fringes of the membrane glide downward intermittently along the pore edges and stop gliding when the fringes reach the edge bottoms. The bending continues afterward, and the large strain eventually induces a phase transition in the membrane, transformed from a bilayered structure to an interdigitated structure. The membrane is finally ruptured when the indentation goes deep enough. Several local physical quantities in the pore regions are calculated, which include the tilt angle of lipid molecules, the nematic order, the included angle, and the distance between neighboring lipids. The variations of the;e quantities reveal many detailed, not-yet-specified local structural transitions of lipid molecules under indentation. The force indentation curve is also studied and discussed. The results make a connection between the microscopic structure and the macroscopic properties and provide deep insight into the understanding of the stability of a lipid membrane spanning over nanopore.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la201977d
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/18717
ISSN: 0743-7463
DOI: 10.1021/la201977d
期刊: LANGMUIR
Volume: 27
Issue: 19
起始頁: 11930
結束頁: 11942
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