“…There have been a number of MD studies of the interaction of Ca 2+ -dependent C2 domains with membranes, revealing how Ca 2+ ions mediate interactions between the protein and anionic lipids such as phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylinositol phosphates (PIPs) ( Alwarawrah and Wereszczynski, 2017 ; Banci et al., 2002 ; Chon et al., 2015 ; Jaud et al., 2007 ; Lai et al., 2010 ; Manna et al., 2008 ; Michaeli et al., 2017 ; Vermaas and Tajkhorshid, 2017 ). However, there have not been many simulation studies of the interactions of Ca 2+ -independent C2 domains with membranes (see, e.g., Alnaas et al., 2021 ; Scott et al., 2020 ) other than for PTEN ( Shenoy et al., 2012a ; Treece et al., 2020 ), despite the growing recognition of the importance of such interactions in a number of cellular processes ( Stahelin et al., 2014 ). Here, we use coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CG-MD) ( IngĂłlfsson et al., 2014 ; Marrink and Tieleman, 2013 ) to examine and compare the interactions of six different Ca 2+ -independent C2 domains with lipid bilayers: C2 domains from KIBRA (PDB: 6FJD ), PI3KC2α (PDB: 6BU0 ), RIM2 (PDB: 2BWQ ), PTEN (PDB: 1D5R ), Smurf2 (PDB: 2JQZ ), and SHIP2 (PDB: 5OKM ).…”