We study the bending rigidity of protein-coated lipid bilayer membranes by a continuum Landau theory. For up–down symmetric membrane proteins, the bending rigidity (κ) of the membrane is found to increase linearly with protein fraction (φ) and coupling strength (λ) due to the coupling...

The driven translocation dynamics of a polynucleotide chain through a nanopore is studied using off-lattice Monte-Carlo simulations, which plays an important role in the nanopore sequencing of polynucleotides. We report a detailed study on the dependence of translocation dynamics on the chain...