Interactions between Membrane Inclusions on Fluctuating Membranes

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1996-01-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9601006v2

Journal de Physique (France) I, 7 (1996) 1217.

Physics

Condensed Matter

REVTEX, 29 pages with 4 postscript figures compressed using uufiles. Introduction and Discussion sections revised. To appear i

Scientific paper

10.1051/jp1:1996125

We model membrane proteins as anisotropic objects characterized by symmetric-traceless tensors and determine the coupling between these order-parameters and membrane curvature. We consider the interactions between transmembrane proteins that respect up-down (reflection) symmetry of bilayer membranes and that have circular or non-circular cross-sectional areas in the tangent-plane of membranes. Using a field theoretic approach, we find non-entropic $1/R^{4}$ interactions between reflection-symmetry-breaking transmembrane proteins with circular cross-sectional area and entropic $1/R^{4}$ interactions between transmembrane proteins with circular cross-section that do not break up-down symmetry in agreement with previous calculations. We also find anisotropic $1/R^{4}$ interactions between reflection-symmetry-conserving transmembrane proteins with non-circular cross-section, anisotropic $1/R^{2}$ interactions between reflection-symmetry-breaking transmembrane proteins with non-circular cross-section, and non-entropic $1/R^{4}$ many-particle interactions among non-transmembrane proteins. For large $R$, these interactions might provide the dominant force inducing aggregation of the membrane proteins.

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