Sugar transport across lactose permease probed by steered molecular dynamics

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-102

  Jensen, Morten Ø ^a,c,d   Yin, Ying ^a,b   Tajkhorshid, Emad ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d D E SHAW RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE; LACTOSE PERMEASE; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; ENERGY; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTON TRANSPORT; SUGAR TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34447253999     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.103994     Document Type: Article

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