Ion leakage through transient water pores in protein-free lipid membranes driven by transmembrane ionic charge imbalance

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1878-1890

  Gurtovenko, Andrey A ^a   Vattulainen, Ilpo ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; CATION; CHLORIDE ION; PHOSPHOLIPID; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM ION; WATER;

ANION TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CATION TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; ION PERMEABILITY; ION TRANSPORT; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; WATER ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947704765     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.094797     Document Type: Article

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