Molecular simulations elucidate the substrate translocation pathway in a glutamate transporter

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2589-2594

  Gu, Yan ^a,b   Shrivastava, Indira H ^a   Amara, Susan G ^a   Bahar, Ivet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE RECEPTOR TRANSLOCATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII;

EID: 62449268980     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812299106     Document Type: Article

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