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T1 - Charge fluctuations and boundary conditions of biological ion channels
T2 - effect on the ionic transition rate
AU - Tindjong, R.
AU - Luchinsky, D. G.
AU - McClintock, P. V. E.
AU - Eisenberg, R. S.
N1 - Copyright 2009 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in AIP Conference Proceedings, 1129 (535), 2009 and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/1129/535/1
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A self-consistent solution is derived for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equation, valid both inside a biological ion channel and in the adjacent bulk fluid. An iterative procedure is used to match the two solutions together at the channel mouth. Charge fluctuations at the mouth are modeled as shot noise flipping the height of the potential barrier at the selectivity site. The resultant estimates of the conductivity of the ion channel are in good agreement with Gramicidin experimental measurements and they reproduce the observed current saturation with increasing concentration.
AB - A self-consistent solution is derived for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equation, valid both inside a biological ion channel and in the adjacent bulk fluid. An iterative procedure is used to match the two solutions together at the channel mouth. Charge fluctuations at the mouth are modeled as shot noise flipping the height of the potential barrier at the selectivity site. The resultant estimates of the conductivity of the ion channel are in good agreement with Gramicidin experimental measurements and they reproduce the observed current saturation with increasing concentration.
U2 - 10.1063/1.3140528
DO - 10.1063/1.3140528
M3 - Journal article
VL - 1129
SP - 535
EP - 538
JO - AIP Conference Proceedings
JF - AIP Conference Proceedings
SN - 0094-243X
ER -