Papers:
Towards a Reliable Model of Ion Channels: Three-dimensional simulation of ionic solutions
Ion channels play a crucial role in the physiology of complex biological systems because of their influence on the electrical equilibrium between the cells and their environment. From an engineering viewpoint, ion channels will be [...]
Structure and Environment Influence in DNA Conduction
Results for transmission through poly(G) DNA molecules are presented. We show that a modification of the rise of a B-DNA form can induce a shift of the conduction channel toward the valence one. We clearly [...]
Combining Computational Chemistry and Computational Electronics to Understand Protein Ion Channels
van der Straaten T., Varma S., Chiu S-W, Tang J., Aluru N.R., Eisenberg R.S., Ravaioli U., Jakobsson E., University of Illinois, US
Nanoscale computational engineering can be achieved by combining atomic and molecular scale methods of computational chemistry with coarser-grained continuum theories used in computational electronics. Each computational discipline is quite different; yet both must give the [...]
Structure-function study of Porins
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 [...]
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: 2, Technical Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Computational Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Published: April 22, 2002
Industry sectors: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing | Medical & Biotech
Topic: Biomaterials
ISBN: 0-9708275-6-3