Simulation study of a gramicidin/lipid bilayer system in excess water and lipid. I. Structure of the molecular complex

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1929-1938

  Chiu, See Wing ^a,b   Subramaniam, Shankar ^a,b   Jakobsson, Eric ^a,b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAMICIDIN; HYDROGEN; LIPID; TRYPTOPHAN; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; HYDROGEN BOND; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 0033061633     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77352-2     Document Type: Article

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