Molecular basis of mechanotransduction in living cells

OP Hamill, B Martinac - Physiological reviews, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
The simplest cell-like structure, the lipid bilayer vesicle, can respond to mechanical
deformation by elastic membrane dilation/thinning and curvature changes. When a protein is …

Synthesis of models for excitable membranes, synaptic transmission and neuromodulation using a common kinetic formalism

A Destexhe, ZF Mainen, TJ Sejnowski - Journal of computational …, 1994 - Springer
Markov kinetic models were used to synthesize a complete description of synaptic
transmission, including opening of voltage-dependent channels in the presynaptic terminal …

[BOOK][B] The synaptic organization of the brain

GM Shepherd - 2003 - books.google.com
It is widely recognized that the neural basis of brain function can be fully understood only by
integrating many disciplines at many levels. Studies of synaptic organization are bringing …

[BOOK][B] Physical biology of the cell

R Phillips, J Kondev, J Theriot, H Garcia - 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
Physical Biology of the Cell is a textbook for a first course in physical biology or biophysics
for undergraduate or graduate students. It maps the huge and complex landscape of cell …

Structure of a glycerol-conducting channel and the basis for its selectivity

D Fu, A Libson, LJW Miercke, C Weitzman, P Nollert… - science, 2000 - science.org
Membrane channel proteins of the aquaporin family are highly selective for permeation of
specific small molecules, with absolute exclusion of ions and charged solutes and without …

Shaker potassium channel gating. III: Evaluation of kinetic models for activation.

WN Zagotta, T Hoshi, RW Aldrich - The Journal of general physiology, 1994 - rupress.org
Predictions of different classes of gating models involving identical conformational changes
in each of four subunits were compared to the gating behavior of Shaker potassium …

[HTML][HTML] Chance and design—proton transfer in water, channels and bioenergetic proteins

CA Wraight - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2006 - Elsevier
Proton transfer and transport in water, gramicidin and some selected channels and
bioenergetic proteins are reviewed. An attempt is made to draw some conclusions about …

Theoretical and computational models of biological ion channels

B Roux, T Allen, S Berneche, W Im - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2004 - cambridge.org
1. Introduction 172. Dynamics of many-body systems 192.1 Effective dynamics of reduced
systems 212.2 The constraint of thermodynamic equilibrium 242.3 Mean-field theories 253 …

Voltage gating of ion channels

FJ Sigworth - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 1994 - cambridge.org
Voltage-gated ion channels are membrane proteins that play a central role in the
propagation and transduction of cellular signals (Hille, 1992). Calcium ions entering cells …

Energetics of ion conduction through the gramicidin channel

TW Allen, OS Andersen, B Roux - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
The free energy governing K+ conduction through gramicidin A channels is characterized by
using over 0.1 μs of all-atom molecular dynamics simulations with explicit solvent and …