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A membrane of the lipid bilayer is regarded as a two-dimensional viscous and incompressible fluid coupled to the surrounding water. A long-range interaction arises between protein molecules moving in this two-dimensional fluid in a weak coupling limit.
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Komura, S., Izuyama, T. (1990). Hydrodynamic Interprotein Interaction in a Biomembrane. In: Onuki, A., Kawasaki, K. (eds) Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76008-2_4
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