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- Title
A COARSE-GRAINED MODEL OF MONOOLEIN:: COMPARISON WITH THE ATOMISTIC MODEL.
- Authors
KIM, J. H.; CHOI, S. H.; JUNG, D. H.; CHO, C. S.; CHOI, Y. J.
- Abstract
Monoolein (2,3-dihydroxypropyl (Z)-octadec-9-enoate) is one of the monoacylglycerol and has been studied for various applications in food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industry. Those applications make use of the phase behavior of monoolein. In order to understand the lipid bilayer phase of monoolein in mesoscale, a coarse-grained model has been built and tested in this work. The monoolein molecule was represented by two hydrophilic heads and six hydrophobic tails. The three water molecules were also represented as one bead. For comparison, the atomistic model has also been used for molecular dynamics simulation on the lipid bilayer phase in isothermal-isobaric (NPT) ensemble. The interaction and bond bending potential parameters for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) were obtained with molecular dynamics simulations on lipid bilayer in water. And we also obtained the interaction parameters of the coarse-grained model, which agree well with the atomistic model. We compared the simulated phases using the coarse-grained model with using the atomistic model. With these parameters, we successfully reproduced the lamella phase of monoolein in DPD simulations.
- Subjects
MOLECULAR dynamics; STATICS; ANALYTICAL mechanics; MOLECULES; MECHANICS (Physics)
- Publication
International Journal of Nanoscience, 2009, Vol 8, Issue 1/2, p169
- ISSN
0219-581X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0219581X09005918