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Abraham Khorasani
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The potassium channel is an integral membrane protein consisting of four identical subunits.  Because it is located in the membrane, its hydrophobic groups are located on the outside of the structure, where they interact with the lipids inside the membrane.  The interior of the channel, meanwhile, is hydrophobic with polar groups to interact with potassium cations.  <scene name='Sandbox7/Hydrophobic_alpha-helices/1'>Hydrophobic residues</scene> are located on the outside of the alpha helices.
The potassium channel is an integral membrane protein consisting of four identical subunits.  Because it is located in the membrane, it consists of a number of cross-membrane <scene name='Sandbox7/Alpha_helices/1'>alpha helices</scene> (shown in blue)and its hydrophobic groups are mostly located on the outside of the structure, where they interact with the lipids inside the membrane.  The interior of the channel, meanwhile, is hydrophilic with <scene name='Sandbox7/Aliphatic/1'>polar</scene> groups to interact with potassium cations, thus making the helices aliphatic.  <scene name='Sandbox7/Hydrophobic_alpha-helices/2'>Hydrophobic residues</scene> (shown in green) are located on the outside of the alpha helices.
 


Information from [[1bl8]].




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Latest revision as of 14:42, 23 March 2009

This sandbox is in use until June 1, 2009 for UMass Chemistry 490a. Others please do not edit this page. Thanks! ' Abraham Khorasani

The potassium channel is an integral membrane protein consisting of four identical subunits. Because it is located in the membrane, it consists of a number of cross-membrane alpha helices (shown in blue)and its hydrophobic groups are mostly located on the outside of the structure, where they interact with the lipids inside the membrane. The interior of the channel, meanwhile, is hydrophilic with polar groups to interact with potassium cations, thus making the helices aliphatic. Hydrophobic residues (shown in green) are located on the outside of the alpha helices.



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1bl8, resolution 3.20Å (default scene)
Ligands: K
Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum
Coordinates: save as pdb, mmCIF, xml