Electrostatic Tuning of Permeation and Selectivity in Aquaporin Water Channels

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2884-2899

  Jensen, Morten Ø ^a,b   Tajkhorshid, Emad ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^a  

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

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN;

ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; ORIENTATION; OSMOTIC STRESS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0242269040     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74711-0     Document Type: Article

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