Probing the Energy Landscape of Activation Gating of the Bacterial Potassium Channel KcsA

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Linder, Tobias ^a   de Groot, Bert L ^b   Stary Weinzinger, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CONFORMATIONS; POTASSIUM;

DYNAMICS SIMULATION; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; ENERGY PROFILE; ESSENTIAL DYNAMICS; FULL OPENINGS; IDEAL MODEL; ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; STRUCTURAL REARRANGEMENT; TRANSITION PATHWAY;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; CHANNEL GATING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84878512017     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003058     Document Type: Article

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