Imaging α-hemolysin with molecular dynamics: Ionic conductance, osmotic permeability, and the electrostatic potential map

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3745-3761

  Aksimentiev, Aleksij ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYSIN; CHLORIDE ION; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; HEMOLYSIN; HISTIDINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL; IMAGING; ION CONDUCTANCE; ION CURRENT; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERIZATION; PH; PROTON TRANSPORT; SENSOR; SIMULATION; SOLUTE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WATER PERMEABILITY;

EID: 22244445788     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.058727     Document Type: Article

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