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Cover Picture: Multistep Binding of Divalent Cations to Phospholipid Bilayers: A Molecular Dynamics Study (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 8/2004)
Author(s) -
Böckmann Rainer A.,
Grubmüller Helmut
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200490018
Subject(s) - membrane , divalent , phospholipid , molecular dynamics , chemistry , ion , lipid bilayer , biophysics , calcium , crystallography , computational chemistry , biochemistry , organic chemistry , biology
Membrane–cation interactions can greatly affect the properties of biological membranes. In their Communication on page 1021 ff. H. Grubmüller and R. A. Böckmann describe the simulation of the binding of sodium and calcium ions to neutral, zwitterionic lipid membranes. The cover picture shows a snapshot from the molecular dynamics simulation of a membrane with Ca 2+ ions.