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ReviewChemical reviews2019

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Membrane Permeability.

Richard M Venable, Andreas Krämer, Richard W Pastor

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
124citing papers in PubMed
14.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

124 citing papers in PubMed, 392 citations in OpenAlex.

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64 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard M VenableLaboratory of Computational Biology, National Lung, Heart, and Blood Institute , National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland 20892 , United States.
Andreas KrämerLaboratory of Computational Biology, National Lung, Heart, and Blood Institute , National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland 20892 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7699-3083
Richard W PastorLaboratory of Computational Biology, National Lung, Heart, and Blood Institute , National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland 20892 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2454-5131
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Computer Simulations of Membranes and BiopolymersZ01HL000340 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI PASTOR, RICHARD WALTER · 2006 to 2008
$2.9M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 HL000340
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This Review illustrates the evaluation of permeability of lipid membranes from molecular dynamics (MD) simulation primarily using water and oxygen as examples. Membrane entrance, translocation, and exit of these simple permeants (one hydrophilic and one hydrophobic) can be simulated by conventional MD, and permeabilities can be evaluated directly by Fick's First Law, transition rates, and a global Bayesian analysis of the inhomogeneous solubility-diffusion model. The assorted results, many of which are applicable to simulations of nonbiological membranes, highlight the limitations of the homogeneous solubility diffusion model; support the utility of inhomogeneous solubility diffusion and compartmental models; underscore the need for comparison with experiment for both simple solvent systems (such as water/hexadecane) and well-characterized membranes; and demonstrate the need for microsecond simulations for even simple permeants like water and oxygen. Undulations, subdiffusion, fractional viscosity dependence, periodic boundary conditions, and recent developments in the field are also discussed. Last, while enhanced sampling methods and increasingly sophisticated treatments of diffusion add substantially to the repertoire of simulation-based approaches, they do not address directly the critical need for force fields with polarizability and multipoles, and constant pH methods.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalBiological TransportCell MembraneCell Membrane PermeabilityComputer SimulationHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationThermodynamics

Identifiers

PMID30747524
PMCPMC6506413
OpenAlexW2911593691

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Registered trials

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