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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2012

Computer Simulations of Voltage-Gated Cation Channels.

Werner Treptow, Michael L Klein

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Fluoride Transport and Inhibition Across CLC Transporters.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2024
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  2. Ion channel selectivity through ion-modulated changes of selectivity filter pProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Werner TreptowUniversidade de Brasília, Laboratório de Biologia Teórica e Computacional, Departamento Biologia Celular, BR-70910-900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
Michael L Klein
Temple University · USUniversidade de Brasília · BR

Funding

X-ray and Neutron Interferometry Studies of Anesthetic Interactions with VoltageP01GM055876 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LOLL, PATRICK J · 1997 to 2017
$22.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM055876
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relentless growth in computational power has seen increasing applications of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to the study of membrane proteins in realistic membrane environments, which include explicit membrane lipids, water and ions. The concomitant increasing availability of membrane protein structures for ion channels, and transporters -- to name just two examples -- has stimulated many of these MD studies. In the case of voltage-gated cation channels (VGCCs) recent computational works have focused on ion-conduction and gating mechanisms, along with their regulation by agonist/antagonist ligands. The information garnered from these computational studies is largely inaccessible to experiment and is crucial for understanding the interplay between the structure and function as well as providing new directions for experiments. This article highlights recent advances in probing the structure and function of potassium channels and offers a perspective on the challenges likely to arise in making analogous progress in characterizing sodium channels.

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PMID22523619
PMCPMC3328965
OpenAlexW1971081743

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