Stability of charged, mixed lipid bilayers: effect of electrostatic coupling between the monolayers Export

@article{citeulike:3988333, abstract = {The stability of a planar, two-component, charged lipid bilayer with respect to lateral phase separation is analysed. Particular focus is put on the influence of electrostatic coupling between the two apposed monolayers. We describe the membrane on the mean-field level by a lattice gas model, supplemented by the Poisson-Boltzmann theory for electrostatic interactions. The spinodal line is calculated analytically for a symmetric membrane. We demonstrate that the critical non-ideality parameter decreases with the extent of electrostatic coupling across the bilayer. In the limit of strong coupling it approaches the value of an uncharged membrane.}, author = {Baciu, Cristina L. and May, Sylvio}, citeulike-article-id = {3988333}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/16/26/018}, doi = {10.1088/0953-8984/16/26/018}, journal = {Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter}, keywords = {bilayers, sphingosine, stability}, number = {26}, pages = {S2455--S2460}, posted-at = {2009-01-31 18:28:17}, priority = {2}, title = {Stability of charged, mixed lipid bilayers: effect of electrostatic coupling between the monolayers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/16/26/018}, volume = {16}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3988333 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3988333 N2 - The stability of a planar, two-component, charged lipid bilayer with respect to lateral phase separation is analysed. Particular focus is put on the influence of electrostatic coupling between the two apposed monolayers. We describe the membrane on the mean-field level by a lattice gas model, supplemented by the Poisson-Boltzmann theory for electrostatic interactions. The spinodal line is calculated analytically for a symmetric membrane. We demonstrate that the critical non-ideality parameter decreases with the extent of electrostatic coupling across the bilayer. In the limit of strong coupling it approaches the value of an uncharged membrane. IS - 26 JF - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter EP - S2460 TI - Stability of charged, mixed lipid bilayers: effect of electrostatic coupling between the monolayers VL - 16 SP - S2455 KW - bilayers KW - sphingosine KW - stability AU - Baciu, Cristina AU - May, Sylvio PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/16/26/018 ER -