Poisson-Nernst-Planck models of nonequilibrium ion electrodiffusion through a protegrin transmembrane pore.

Protegrin peptides are potent antimicrobial agents believed to act against a variety of pathogens by forming nonselective transmembrane pores in the bacterial cell membrane. We have employed 3D Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) calculations to determine the steady-state ion conduction characteristics of s...

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Main Authors: Dan S Bolintineanu, Abdallah Sayyed-Ahmad, H Ted Davis, Yiannis N Kaznessis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2614469?pdf=render