Pore opening and closing of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel

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

Volumn 107, Issue 46, 2010, Pages 19814-19819

  Zhu, Fangqiang ^a   Hummer, Gerhard ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational change; ELIC; Hydrophobic gate; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; String method

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PENTAMERIC LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DESICCATION; GLOEOBACTER VIOLACEUS; ION CONDUCTANCE; LIGAND BINDING; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIMULATION;

GLOEOBACTER VIOLACEUS;

EID: 78650570871     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009313107     Document Type: Article

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