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ArticleThe Journal of membrane biology2017

Geometrical Characterization of an Electropore from Water Positional Fluctuations.

P Marracino, F Castellani, P T Vernier, M Liberti, F Apollonio

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Article in The Journal of membrane biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

P MarracinoDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics, and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. marracino@diet.uniroma1.it.ORCID 0000-0003-4742-8170
F CastellaniFrank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23508, USA.
P T VernierFrank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23508, USA.
M LibertiDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics, and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
F ApollonioDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics, and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · ITOld Dominion University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present here a new method for calculating the radius of a transmembrane pore in a phospholipid bilayer. To compare size-related properties of pores in bilayers of various compositions, generated and maintained under different physical and chemical conditions, reference metrics are needed. Operational metrics can be associated with some observed behavior. For example, pore size can be defined by the largest object that will pass through the length of the pore. The novelty of the present approach resides in the characterization of electropore geometry via a statistical approach, based on essential dynamics rules. We define the pore size geometrically with an algorithm for determining the pore radius. In particular, we extract the radius from the tri-dimensional surface of a defined pore region. The method is applied to a pore formed in a phospholipid bilayer by application of an external electric field. Although the details described here are specific for lipid pores in molecular dynamics simulations, the method can be generalized for any kind of pores for which appropriate structural information is available.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationAlgorithmsLipid BilayersModels, TheoreticalPhospholipidsLipid BilayersPhospholipidsElectroporationElectropore geometryMolecular dynamicsPore radius

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PMID27435217
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