Water Dynamics and Dewetting Transitions in the Small Mechanosensitive Channel MscS

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2883-2895

  Anishkin, Andriy ^a   Sukharev, Sergei ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; NANOTUBE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEHYDRATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOMETRY; ION TRANSPORT; LIQUID; MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL OF LARGE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; POROSITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; VAPOR;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 2142715470     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74340-4     Document Type: Article

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