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SUBMITTER: Smolin N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2479601 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smolin Nikolai N Li Bin B Beck David A C DA Daggett Valerie V
Biophysical journal 20080425 3
Molecular dynamics simulations of aquaporin-1 embedded in a solvated lipid bilayer were carried out to investigate the mechanism of water permeation. The 2.2 A resolution crystal structure of the bovine protein was used for five independent trajectories. During the equilibration and preparatory steps in which the protein was held fixed, water molecules inside the water channel adopted the same positions as observed in the crystal structure but they did not pass through the channel, suggesting th ...[more]