Interfacial water molecules at biological membranes: Structural features and role for lateral proton diffusion.

Proton transport at water/membrane interfaces plays a fundamental role for a myriad of bioenergetic processes. Here we have performed ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of proton transfer along two phosphatidylcholine bilayers. As found in previous theoretical studies, the excess proton is pre...

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Main Authors: Trung Hai Nguyen, Chao Zhang, Ewald Weichselbaum, Denis G Knyazev, Peter Pohl, Paolo Carloni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5825111?pdf=render