Computer simulations of voltage-gated cation channels

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1017-1023

  Treptow, Werner ^a   Klein, Michael L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION CHANNELS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL WORK; GATING MECHANISMS; ION CHANNEL; ION CONDUCTION; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN STRUCTURES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SODIUM CHANNEL;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; ION EXCHANGE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

POSITIVE IONS;

EID: 84860180058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300089g     Document Type: Review

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