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ArticleChemistry and physics of lipids2020

A combined molecular/continuum-modeling approach to predict the small-angle neutron scattering of curved membranes.

Mitchell W Dorrell, Andrew H Beaven, Alexander J Sodt

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3 authors.

Mitchell W DorrellEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Andrew H BeavenEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, USA.
Alexander J SodtEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, USA. Electronic address: alexander.sodt@nih.gov.

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Molecular simulations of lipid curvature stress and its effect on transmembrane proteinsZIAHD008955 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI SODT, ALEXANDER · 2016 to 2025
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Intramural NIH HHS Z99 HD999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD008955
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper develops a framework to compute the small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) from highly curved, dynamically fluctuating, and potentially inhomogeneous membranes. This method is needed to compute the scattering from nanometer-scale membrane domains that couple to curvature, as predicted by molecular modeling. The detailed neutron scattering length density of a small planar bilayer patch is readily available via molecular dynamics simulation. A mathematical, mechanical transformation of the planar scattering length density is developed to predict the scattering from curved bilayers. By simulating a fluctuating, curved, surface-continuum model, long time- and length-scales can be reached while, with the aid of the planar-to-curved transformation, the molecular features of the scattering length density can be retained. A test case for the method is developed by constructing a coarse-grained lipid vesicle following a protocol designed to relieve both the osmotic stress inside the vesicle and the lipid-number stress between the leaflets. A question was whether the hybrid model would be able to replicate the scattering from the highly deformed inner and outer leaflets of the small vesicle. Matching the scattering of the full (molecular vesicle) and hybrid (continuum vesicle) models indicated that the inner and outer leaflets of the full vesicle were expanded laterally, consistent with previous simulations of the Martini forcefield that showed thinning in small vesicles. The vesicle structure is inconsistent with a zero-tension leaflet deformed by a single set of elastic parameters, and the results show that this is evident in the scattering. The method can be applied to translate observations of any molecular model's neutron scattering length densities from small patches to large length and timescales.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationLipid BilayersNeutron DiffractionScattering, Small AngleLipid BilayersCurvatureModulated phasesNeutron scatteringVesicles

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PMCPMC7704729

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