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 | Nanotech 2002 Vol. 2
Technical Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Computational Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Chapter 4: Biological Conduction Processes |
| | Structure-function study of Porins | | Authors: | D.P. Chen, J. Tang and R.S. Eisenberg | | Affilation: | Rush Medical College, USA | | Pages: | 64 - 67 | | Keywords: | porin, Poisson-Nernst-Planck, electrodiffusion, semiconductor equation | | Abstract: | Single channel current-voltage (IV) relations were measured from proteins that form channels across the outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria-porins and their mutants in solutions of KCl. The wild-type porins and some of their specific mutants have known x-rays structures, which lays the foundation for this theoretical work. The ionic strength of KCl ranges from 100mM to 3M. Using the already published electrodiffusion permeation theory [1]—[3], the measured IV relations were analyzed by the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) formulation. The parameters of the permeation property in the theory are obtained by the least-squares fit to the experimental data and compared to the known structure changes in the wild-type porins and their mutants. The comparison shows that the PNP theory can successfully recover the charge difference between the wild-type and mutants; hence, the theory begins to establish the structure-function relation biological charge transport systems and other macro-molecules. |  | View paper | | ISBN: | 0-9708275-6-3 |
| Pages: | 504 |
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