'KMC-TDGL'-a coarse-grained methodology for simulating interfacial dynamics in complex fluids: application to protein-mediated membrane processes.
Mol Phys 2006;
104:3653-3666. [PMID:
32724265 PMCID:
PMC7386820 DOI:
10.1080/00268970600997580]
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Abstract
In this article, we describe a new multiscale simulation algorithm (which we term the 'KMC-TDGL' method) applicable for the description of equilibrium and dynamic processes associated with a particular class of complex fluids with nanoscale inclusions, namely, biological membranes mediated by membrane-associating and membrane-bound proteins. We adopt a novel strategy of integrating two different phenomenological approaches, namely, a field theoretic (continuum) description for the membrane dynamics given by the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation and a random walk on a discretized lattice description for protein diffusion dynamics. We illustrate that this integrated approach results in a unified description of protein-mediated membrane dynamics.
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