Cooperative nature of gating transitions in K + channels as seen from dynamic importance sampling calcualations

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1105-1119

  Denning, Elizabeth J ^a   Woolf, Thomas B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conforma tional change; Ion channels; Membrane proteins; Transition path sampling

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROLINE; VALINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77951236840     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22632     Document Type: Article

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