The Mechanism of Proton Exclusion in Aquaporin Channels

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-228

  Ilan, Boaz ^a   Tajkhorshid, Emad ^b   Schulten, Klaus ^b   Voth, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Aquaporin channels; Multistate empirical valence bond; Proton transport

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; COVALENT BOND; ENERGY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTON TRANSPORT; WATER TRANSPORT;

AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTONS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 1842583051     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20038     Document Type: Article

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