Importance of the peptide backbone description in modeling the selectivity filter in potassium channels

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4006-4012

  Baştuǧ, Turgut ^a,b   Kuyucak, Serdar ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCSA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV1.2; SHAKER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SHAKER SUPERFAMILY OF POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 68049122041     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.02.041     Document Type: Article

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