Electrostatics of aquaporin and aquaglyceroporin channels correlates with their transport selectivity

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

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4135-4140

  Oliva, Romina ^a,b   Calamita, Giuseppe ^c   Thornton, Janet M ^b   Pellegrini Calace, Marialuisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channel proteins; Comparative analysis; Electrostatic potentials; Pore analysis

Indexed keywords

AQUAGLYCEROPORIN; AQUAPORIN;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WATER PERMEABILITY;

AQUAPORINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 77749239733     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910632107     Document Type: Article

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