Molecular dynamics study of gating in the mechanosensitive channel of small conductance MscS

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3050-3065

  Sotomayor, Marcos ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CHLORIDE ION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN MSCS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1-PALMITOYL-2-OLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; 2 OLEOYL 1 PALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; MSCS PROTEIN, E COLI; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CONDUCTANCE; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIMULATION; SOLVATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EVALUATION; KINETICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; POROSITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STIMULATION; SURFACE TENSION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTION; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POROSITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE TENSION; WATER;

EID: 13544256698     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.046045     Document Type: Article

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