Permeation of Ions Across the Potassium Channel

In April, 1998, the crystallographic structure of the potassium channel from the soil bacterium was unravelled by McKinnon and his colleagues.

McKinnon's WWW site

We present here some of the results our theoretical calculations that make use of the new structural information.

Additional information on these structures can be found here.

The calculations upon which this work is based were carried out with the Fujitsu VPP-300 of the ANU Supercomputer Facility.

This work was supported by grants from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.