Chapter 12 Molecular Modeling and Simulation Studies of Ion Channel Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 90, Issue C, 2008, Pages 233-265

  Tai, Kaihsu ^a   Fowler, Philip ^a   Mokrab, Younes ^a   Stansfeld, Phillip ^a   Sansom, Mark S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LIPID BILAYER; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 59049094817     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)00812-1     Document Type: Review

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