How environment supports a state: Molecular dynamics simulations of two states in bacteriorhodopsin suggest lipid and water compensation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 129-145

  Jang, Hyunbum ^a   Crozier, Paul S ^b   Stevens, Mark J ^b   Woolf, Thomas B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; HYDROGEN; LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SOLVENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DARK ADAPTATION; ENERGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HYDROGEN BOND; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTON TRANSPORT; WATER TRANSPORT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM;

EID: 3042730827     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.039602     Document Type: Article

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