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Ion fluxes through nanopores and transmembrane channels

J. R. Bordin, A. Diehl, M. C. Barbosa, Y. Levin
2012 Physical Review E  

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We introduce an implicit solvent Molecular Dynamics approach for calculating ionic fluxes through narrow nanopores and transmembrane channels. The method relies on a dual-control-volume grand-canonical molecular dynamics (DCV-GCMD) simulation and the analytical solution for the electrostatic potential inside a cylindrical nanopore recently obtained by Levin [Europhys. Lett. 76, 163 (2006)]. The theory is used to calculate the ionic fluxes through an artificial transmembrane channel which mimics
more » ... the antibacterial gramicidin A channel. Both current-voltage and current-concentration relations are calculated under various experimental conditions. We show that our results are comparable to the characteristics associated to the gramicidin A pore, especially the existence of two binding sites inside the pore and the observed saturation in the current-concentration profiles.
doi:10.1103/physreve.85.031914 pmid:22587130 fatcat:awvzmsahozcbfblpkvwwhefbya
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J. R. Bordin, A. Diehl, M. C. Barbosa, Y. Levin. "Ion fluxes through nanopores and transmembrane channels." Physical Review E 85.3 (2012)