Periplasmic vestibule plays an important role for solute recruitment, selectivity, and gating in the Rh/Amt/MEP superfamily

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

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3970-3975

  Akgun, Ugur ^a   Khademi, Shahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia channel; Membrane proteins; Molecular dynamic simulations

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM TRANSPORTER B; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; PERMEASE; PHENYL GROUP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VESTIBULE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PERIPLASM; THERMODYNAMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79952762852     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007240108     Document Type: Article

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