An emerging consensus on voltage-dependent gating from computational modeling and molecular dynamics simulations

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 587-594

  Vargas, Ernesto ^a   Yarov Yarovoy, Vladimir ^b   Khalili Araghi, Fatemeh ^a   Catterall, William A ^c   Klein, Michael L ^d   Tarek, Mounir ^e   Lindahl, Erik ^f   Schulten, Klaus ^g   Perozo, Eduardo ^a   Bezanilla, Francisco ^a   Roux, Benoît ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Temple University   (United States)

^e NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^g University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 84871004046     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201210873     Document Type: Article

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