Ion permeation through the gramicidin channel: Atomically detailed modeling by the Stochastic Difference Equation

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-80

  Siva, Koneshan ^a   Elber, Ron ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Diffusion; Functional optimization; Ionic solutions; Long time dynamics; Membranes; Transport

Indexed keywords

GRAMICIDIN; LITHIUM; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; VALINE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION; ION PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENCE EQUATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORY; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 0037233422     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10256     Document Type: Article

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