The window of a few tens to a few hundred nanometers in length scale is a booming field in lipid membrane research, owing largely to two reasons. First, many exciting biophysical and cell biological processes take place within it. Second, experimental techniques manage to zoom in on this sub-optical scale, while computer simulations zoom out to system sizes previously unattainable, and both will be meeting soon. This paper reviews a selection of questions and ' concepts in this field and demonstrates that they can often be favorably addressed with highly simplified simulation models. Among the topics discussed are membrane adhesion to substrates, mixed lipid bilayers, lipid curvature coupling, pore formation by antimicrobial peptides, compositiondriven protein aggregation, and curvature driven vesiculation. © 1009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
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Deserno, M. (2009). Mesoscopic membrane physics: Concepts, simulations, and selected applications. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 30(9–10), 752–771. https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.200900090
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