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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 125, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2372761
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The tensile force along a cylindrical lipid bilayer tube is proportional to the membrane's bending modulus and inversely proportional to the tube radius. We show that this relation, which is experimentally exploited to measure bending rigidities, can be applied with even greater ease in computer simulations. Using a coarse-grained bilayer model we efficiently obtain bending rigidities that compare very well with complementary measurements based on an analysis of thermal undulation modes. We furthermore illustrate that no deviations from simple quadratic continuum theory occur up to a radius of curvature comparable to the bilayer thickness. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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