Microbial mechanosensation

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-405

  Anishkin, Andriy ^a   Kung, Ching ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL;

BIOPHYSICS; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDRATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID BILAYER; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SENSATION; SIMULATION; STRETCH RECEPTOR; TENSION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

EID: 23044447229     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2005.06.002     Document Type: Review

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