Conductance and ion selectivity of a mesoscopic protein nanopore probed with cysteine scanning mutagenesis

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3059-3070

  Merzlyak, Petr G ^a   Capistrano, Maria Fatima P ^b   Valeva, Angela ^c   Kasianowicz, John J ^d   Krasilnikov, Oleg V ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Federal University of Rio Grande de Morte   (Brazil)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; ION CHANNEL; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ION CONDUCTANCE; ION TRANSPORT; LIPID BILAYER; MACROMOLECULE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; POROSITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WILD TYPE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 27744482622     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.066472     Document Type: Article

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