Potassium channels: structures, models, simulations
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Potassium channels: structures, models, simulations.
Potassium channels have been studied intensively in terms of the relationship between molecular structure and physiological function. They provide an opportunity to integrate structural and computational studies in order to arrive at an atomic resolution description of mechanism. We review recent progress in K channel structural studies, focussing on the bacterial channel KcsA. Structural studi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0005-2736
DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(02)00576-x