Ion conduction and selectivity in K+ channels

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 34, Issue , 2005, Pages 153-171

  Roux, Benoît ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallographic B factors; Free energy; Gating; KcsA; Molecular dynamic simulations; Potential of mean force

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON; CATIONS; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROSTATICS; HUMANS; IONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM; THERMODYNAMICS; X-RAYS;

EID: 20544431525     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.34.040204.144655     Document Type: Review

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