Understanding the interactions between polymer-nanoparticle conjugates and lipid membrane is important for optimization of their bio-functions.Here the coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate the behaviour of terminal-modified PAMAM dendrimers in aqueous solution and their interactions with membrane.MARTINI force field was used for C
60
PAMAM dendrimer
and DPPC/DPPG lipids.It was found that after C
60
molecules grafting
the radius of gyration of the PAMAM dendrimer in aqueous solution decreased monotonically with the number of C
60
grafted due to hydrophobicity of C
60
molecules.The cluster behaviour of C
60
s changed the structure of flexible PAMAM molecules of the third generation.However
the shape of modified PAMAM only showed a slight deviation from the non-modified one.After interacting with lipid membrane
the size did not monotonously change with the increase in terminal C
60
molecules.The shape of the PAMAM molecules changed from sphere-like to ellipsoid-like (the shape factor changed approximately from 0.015 to 0.06).This was because C
60
molecules penetrated into the lipid membrane due to the hydrophobic interaction
which was demonstrated by calculation of density profile of lipid heads and C
60
molecules.The penetration induced the improvement of membrane permeability characterized by a decrease in local thickness of the membrane.
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