Interactions of the M2δ Segment of the Acetylcholine Receptor with Lipid Bilayers: A Continuum-Solvent Model Study

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3687-3695

  Kessel, Amit ^a   Haliloglu, Turkan ^b   Ben Tal, Nir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALAMETHICIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DODECYLPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; GLYCINE; GRAMICIDIN; MUSCARINIC M2 RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SOLVENT;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID BILAYER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICELLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

ALAMETHICIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE; GRAMICIDIN; LIPID BILAYERS; MICELLES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SOFTWARE; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0344551098     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74785-7     Document Type: Article

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