HIV-1 Liposome Model (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

HIV-1 Liposome Model

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Full-scale model of a realistic HIV-1 lipid vesicle at united atom resolution (MARTINI force-field) has been developed using supercomputer resources. (A) Full-view representation of the 150 nm vesicle model. (B) Clipped view of the vesicle and (C) close-up view of the clipped vesicle. CHOL represents cholesterol and the other acronyms represent the 23 different lipids species used in the model.

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Bryer et al.

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