Solvation, water permeation, and ionic selectivity of a putative model for the pore region of the voltage-gated sodium channel

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2276-2288

  Singh, Chandralekha ^a,d   Sankararamakrishnan, R ^b   Subramaniam, Shankar ^b   Jakobsson, Eric ^b,c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; CATION; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNEL; SOLVENT; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DIPOLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SOLVATION; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 0029914063     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79438-9     Document Type: Article

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