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Mapping heat exchange in an allosteric protein.
Biophysical journal - 16 Feb 2011
Gupta Shaweta, Auerbach Anthony
Abstract excerpt
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) are synaptic ion channels that spontaneously isomerize (i.e., gate) between resting and active conformations. We used single-molecule electrophysiology to measure the temperature dependencies of mouse neuromuscular AChR gating rate and equilibrium constants. From these we estimated free energy, enthalpy, and entropy changes caused by mutations of amino acids located...
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