Ion selectivity in channels and transporters

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 415-426

  Roux, Benoît ^a   Bernèche, Simon ^b   Egwolf, Bernhard ^c   Lev, Bogdan ^d   Noskov, Sergei Y ^d   Rowley, Christopher N ^a   Yu, Haibo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION; ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ION TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; ION TRANSPORT; IONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955711882     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201010577     Document Type: Article

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