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1. Nanoparticle-Induced Permeability of Lipid Membranes Sergey Pogodin, Marco Werner, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Vladimir A. Baulin ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/nn3028858 (2012) Monte Carlo simulations using the bond fluctuation method with explicit solvent reveal the mechanism of enhanced permeability of lipid bilayers induced by the adsorption of nanoparticles with controlled hydrophobicity. Simulation results indicate an adsorption transition of nanoparticles on the bilayer in a [...]...
2. Adsorption of Human Plasma Albumin and Fibronectin onto Nanostructured Black Silicon Surfaces Langmuir: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02601 (2016) Duy H. K. Nguyen, Vy T. H. Pham, Mohammad Al Kobaisi, Chris M. Bhadra, Anna Orlowska, Shahram Ghanaati, Berardo Mario Manzi, Vladimir A Baulin, Saulius Juodkazis, Peter Kingshott, Russell J Crawford, and Elena P. Ivanova The protein adsorption of two human plasma proteins, albumin (Alb) and fibronectin (Fn) onto synthetic nanostructured bactericidal material, black silicon [...]...
3. Translocation and Induced Permeability of Random Amphiphilic Copolymers Interacting with Lipid Bilayer Membranes Biomacromolecules, (2014) Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/bm501266x Marco Werner  and Jens-Uwe Sommer We investigate adsorption and passive translocation of random amphiphilic copolymers interacting with a self-assembled lipid bilayer membrane. By using the bond fluctuation model with explicit solvent, we consider random copolymers under variation of the fraction, H̅, of hydrophobic sites and chain length. Our results indicate a point of [...]...
4. Homo-polymers with balanced hydrophobicity translocate through lipid bilayers and enhance local solvent permeability Marco Werner, Jens-Uwe Sommer and Vladimir A. Baulin Soft Matter, 8, 11708-11716 (2012) Recent experimental studies indicate that polymeric structures with a well-adjusted balance of amphiphilic parts may translocate through self-assembled phospholipid bilayers and enhance the passive trans-membrane transport of smaller molecules. Using a coarse grained lattice Monte Carlo model with explicit solvent we investigate self-assembled lipid [...]...
5. Permeability of lipid bilayers induced by polymers Lipid bilayers emerge by self-organization of amphiphilic molecules and are the essential component of membranes of living cells. An important task of them is the selective exchange of substances between the cell and its environment. This becomes particularly interesting for delivering foreign molecules and RNA into the cell. In the classical view of cell biology [...]...