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Electrostatic properties and macroscopic electrodiffusion in OmpF porin and mutants.
Bioelectrochemistry (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 May 2007
Aguilella-Arzo Marcel, García-Celma Juan J, Cervera Javier, Alcaraz Antonio, Aguilella Vicente M
Abstract excerpt
The bacterial porin OmpF found in the outer membrane of E. coli is a wide channel, characterized by its poor selectivity and almost no ion specificity. It has an asymmetric structure, with relatively large entrances and a narrow constriction. By applying continuum electrostatic methods we determine the ionization states of titratable amino acid residues in the protein and calculate self-consistently the electric...
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