Electrostatics and the ion selectivity of ligand-gated channels

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1211-1222

  Adcock, Charlotte ^a   Smith, Graham R ^a   Sansom, Mark S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; ION PERMEABILITY; LIGAND BINDING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PKA; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING;

EID: 0031708266     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)74040-8     Document Type: Article

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