Biophysical Society. Faculty Participating in the Biophysics Summer Course. A total of 39 faculty persons, graduate students, and other scientists from ...
The bacterial flagellar motor can rotate in both counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) directions. It has been shown that the sodium ion-driven chimeric flagellar motor rotates with 26 steps...
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The structural and functional conversion of the nonselective NaK channel to a K+ selective channel (NaK2K) allows us to identify two key residues, Tyr and Asp in the filter sequence of TVGYGD...
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Many voltage-gated ion channel (VGIC) superfamily members contain six-transmembrane segments in which the first four form a voltage-sensing domain (VSD) and the last two form the pore domain (PD...
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Linear rate-equilibrium (RE) relations, also known as linear free energy relations, are widely observed in chemical reactions, including protein folding, enzymatic catalysis, and channel gating...
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Dimeric ligands can be potent inhibitors of protein-protein or enzyme-substrate interactions. They have increased affinity and specificity toward their targets due to their ability to bind two...
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