Structural intermediates in a model of the substrate translocation path of the bacterial glutamate transporter homologue GltPh

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 116, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 5372-5383

  Stolzenberg, Sebastian ^a,b   Khelashvili, George ^a   Weinstein, Harel ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOMERS; OLIGOMERS; POINT CONTACTS; PROTEINS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; ELASTIC NETWORK MODELS; END POINTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTRACELLULAR; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTERS; INTERMEDIATE STATE; MD SIMULATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS; SYNAPTIC CLEFT; TRANSITION PATHS; TRANSPORT KINETIC; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; TRIMERIZATION; TWO DOMAINS;

CONFORMATIONS;

EID: 84861090698     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp301726s     Document Type: Article

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