Residue-Specialized Membrane Poration Kinetics of Melittin and Its Variants: Insight from Mechanistic Landscapes *
Zhi-Xiong Deng,Jing-Liang Li,Bing Yuan,Kai Yang
Fig. 8 (Color online) Free energy landscape of the interaction between membrane and two melittin peptides. (a) Landscape with the CVs of $Z_{\rm kink}$ values of the two peptides. (b) Energy projection along the CV of $Z_{\rm kink1}$. (c) Snapshots corresponding to the energy minima states in (a).