The force exerted by the membrane potential during protein import into the mitochondrial matrix

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3647-3652

  Shariff, Karim ^a   Ghosal, Sandip ^b   Matouschek, Andreas ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARNASE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALCULATION; CATALYSIS; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRICITY; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; POROSITY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 2942694473     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.040865     Document Type: Article

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