Detailed examination of a single conduction event in a potassium channel

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3104-3109

  Fowler, Philip W ^a   Beckstein, Oliver ^a,b   Abad, Enrique ^a,c   Sansom, Mark S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

action potential; electrophysiology; free energy; ion channels; molecular dynamics; potential of mean force

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION CHANNELS; POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE; SELECTIVITY FILTER; STABLE CONFIGURATION;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEINS;

IONS;

EID: 84884544914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz4014079     Document Type: Article

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