Decrypting the sequence of structural events during the gating transition of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels based on an interpolated elastic network model.

Despite many experimental and computational studies of the gating transition of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs), the structural basis of how ligand binding couples to channel gating remains unknown. By using a newly developed interpolated elastic network model (iENM), we have attempted...

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Main Authors: Wenjun Zheng, Anthony Auerbach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3017109?pdf=render