Chapter 7. Molecular theory of chain packing, elasticity and lipid-protein interaction in lipid bilayers

A. Ben-Shaul
The Institute of Advanced Studies, Department of Physical Chemistry
and the Fritz Haber Research Center, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

1. Introduction

2. Planar bilayers

2.1. The free energy
2.2. The probability distribution of chain conformations
2.3. Conformational properties
2.4. The chain free energy

3.1. Stretching elasticity
3.2. Curvature elasticity

4.1. The model
4.2. The role of hydrophobic mismatch

Acknowledgements

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