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Midya J, Auth T, Gompper G. Membrane-Mediated Interactions Between Nonspherical Elastic Particles. ACS Nano 2023; 17:1935-1945. [PMID: 36669092 PMCID: PMC9933614 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c05801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The transport of particles across lipid-bilayer membranes is important for biological cells to exchange information and material with their environment. Large particles often get wrapped by membranes, a process which has been intensively investigated in the case of hard particles. However, many particles in vivo and in vitro are deformable, e.g., vesicles, filamentous viruses, macromolecular condensates, polymer-grafted nanoparticles, and microgels. Vesicles may serve as a generic model system for deformable particles. Here, we study nonspherical vesicles with various sizes, shapes, and elastic properties at initially planar lipid-bilayer membranes. Using the Helfrich Hamiltonian, triangulated membranes, and energy minimization, we predict the interplay of vesicle shapes and wrapping states. Increasing particle softness enhances the stability of shallow-wrapped and deep-wrapped states over nonwrapped and complete-wrapped states. The free membrane mediates an interaction between partial-wrapped vesicles. For the pair interaction between deep-wrapped vesicles, we predict repulsion. For shallow-wrapped vesicles, we predict attraction for tip-to-tip orientation and repulsion for side-by-side orientation. Our predictions may guide the design and fabrication of deformable particles for efficient use in medical applications, such as targeted drug delivery.
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Kondrashov OV, Kuzmin PI, Akimov SA. Hydrophobic Mismatch Controls the Mode of Membrane-Mediated Interactions of Transmembrane Peptides. Membranes (Basel) 2022; 12:89. [PMID: 35054615 PMCID: PMC8781805 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12010089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Revised: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Various cellular processes require the concerted cooperative action of proteins. The possibility for such synchronization implies the occurrence of specific long-range interactions between the involved protein participants. Bilayer lipid membranes can mediate protein-protein interactions via relatively long-range elastic deformations induced by the incorporated proteins. We considered the interactions between transmembrane peptides mediated by elastic deformations using the framework of the theory of elasticity of lipid membranes. An effective peptide shape was assumed to be cylindrical, hourglass-like, or barrel-like. The interaction potentials were obtained for membranes of different thicknesses and elastic rigidities. Cylindrically shaped peptides manifest almost neutral average interactions-they attract each other at short distances and repel at large ones, independently of membrane thickness or rigidity. The hourglass-like peptides repel each other in thin bilayers and strongly attract each other in thicker bilayers. On the contrary, the barrel-like peptides repel each other in thick bilayers and attract each other in thinner membranes. These results potentially provide possible mechanisms of control for the mode of protein-protein interactions in membrane domains with different bilayer thicknesses.
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- Oleg V. Kondrashov
- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia;
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31/4 Leninskiy Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia;
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Integral or peripheral membrane proteins, or protein oligomers often get close to each other on cell membranes and carry out biological tasks in a collective manner. In addition to electrostatic and van der Waals interactions, those proteins also experience membrane-mediated interactions, which may be necessary for their functionality. The membrane-mediated interactions originate from perturbation of lipid membranes by the presence of protein inclusions, and have been the subject of intensive research in membrane biophysics. Here we review both theoretical and numerical studies of such interactions for membrane proteins and for nanoparticles bound to lipid membranes.
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- Jie Gao
- Kuang Yaming Honors School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Kuang Yaming Honors School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics (LNM) and Beijing Key Laboratory of Engineered Construction and Mechanobiology, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Kuang Yaming Honors School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Besides direct particle-particle interactions, nanoparticles adsorbed to biomembranes experience indirect interactions that are mediated by the membrane curvature arising from particle adsorption. In this Letter, we show that the curvature-mediated interactions of adsorbed Janus particles depend on the initial curvature of the membrane prior to adsorption, that is, on whether the membrane initially bulges toward or away from the particles in our simulations. The curvature-mediated interaction can be strongly attractive for Janus particles adsorbed to the outside of a membrane vesicle, which initially bulges away from the particles. For Janus particles adsorbed to the vesicle inside, in contrast, the curvature-mediated interactions are repulsive. We find that the area fraction of the adhesive Janus particle surface is an important control parameter for the curvature-mediated interaction and assembly of the particles, besides the initial membrane curvature.
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- Amir Houshang Bahrami
- Department of Theoretical Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics , Max-von-Laue Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces , Science Park Golm, 14424 Potsdam, Germany
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Cournia Z, Allen TW, Andricioaei I, Antonny B, Baum D, Brannigan G, Buchete NV, Deckman JT, Delemotte L, del Val C, Friedman R, Gkeka P, Hege HC, Hénin J, Kasimova MA, Kolocouris A, Klein ML, Khalid S, Lemieux MJ, Lindow N, Roy M, Selent J, Tarek M, Tofoleanu F, Vanni S, Urban S, Wales DJ, Smith JC, Bondar AN. Membrane Protein Structure, Function, and Dynamics: a Perspective from Experiments and Theory. J Membr Biol 2015; 248:611-40. [PMID: 26063070 PMCID: PMC4515176 DOI: 10.1007/s00232-015-9802-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2014] [Accepted: 03/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Membrane proteins mediate processes that are fundamental for the flourishing of biological cells. Membrane-embedded transporters move ions and larger solutes across membranes; receptors mediate communication between the cell and its environment and membrane-embedded enzymes catalyze chemical reactions. Understanding these mechanisms of action requires knowledge of how the proteins couple to their fluid, hydrated lipid membrane environment. We present here current studies in computational and experimental membrane protein biophysics, and show how they address outstanding challenges in understanding the complex environmental effects on the structure, function, and dynamics of membrane proteins.
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- Zoe Cournia
- Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephessiou, 11527, Athens, Greece
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- School of Applied Sciences & Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Vic, 3001, Australia; and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis. Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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- Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7275, 06560 Valbonne, France
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- Department of Visualization and Data Analysis, Zuse Institute Berlin, Takustrasse 7, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and Department of Physics, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, NJ, USA
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- School of Physics and Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Institute of Computational and Molecular Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain
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- Linnæus University, Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences & Centre for Biomaterials Chemistry, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden
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- Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephessiou, 11527, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Visualization and Data Analysis, Zuse Institute Berlin, Takustrasse 7, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, IBPC and CNRS, Paris, France
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- Université de Lorraine, SRSMC, UMR 7565, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, F-54500, France
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis-Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Computational and Molecular Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Membrane Protein Disease Research Group, and Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2H7
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- Department of Visualization and Data Analysis, Zuse Institute Berlin, Takustrasse 7, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
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- Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Dr. Aiguader 88, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Université de Lorraine, SRSMC, UMR 7565, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, F-54500, France
- CNRS, SRSMC, UMR 7565, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, F-54500, France
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- School of Physics and Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7275, 06560 Valbonne, France
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, 725 N. Wolfe Street, 507 Preclinical Teaching Building, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- University Chemical Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO BOX 2008 MS6309, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6309, USA
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- Theoretical Molecular Biophysics, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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