The transmembrane domain of the acetylcholine receptor: Insights from simulations on synthetic peptide models

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 959-970

  Saiz, Leonor ^a,b   Klein, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; HYDROCARBON; ION CHANNEL; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE; MICELLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; POROSITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; ION CHANNEL GATING; LIPID BILAYERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; POROSITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 21244436322     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.049726     Document Type: Article

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