Intrinsic aqueduct orifices facilitate K+ channel gating

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 23-24, 2008, Pages 3320-3324

  Zhong, Wenyu ^a   Guo, Wanlin ^a   Ma, Shaojie ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aqueduct orifices; Gating; KcsA; Molecular dynamics simulation; Potassium channel

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POROSITY; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; WATER;

EID: 53049093838     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.08.020     Document Type: Article

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