Mechanosensitive channels: Insights from continuum-based simulations

Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-18

  Tang, Yuye ^a   Yoo, Jejoong ^b   Yethiraj, Arun ^b   Cui, Qiang ^b   Chen, Xi ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuum mechanics; Mechanobiology; Mechanosensitive channel; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; MSCL PROTEIN, E COLI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 51349132613     PISSN: 10859195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12013-008-9024-5     Document Type: Review

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