title: Theoretical and simulation studies on voltage-gated sodium channels.
abstract: Voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels are indispensable membrane elements for the generation and propagation of electric signals in excitable cells. The successes in the crystallographic studies on prokaryotic Nav channels in recent years greatly promote the mechanistic investigation of these proteins and their eukaryotic counterparts. In this paper, we mainly review the progress in computational studies, especially the simulation studies, on these proteins in the past years.
authors.affiliation: MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Haipeng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gong
mesh_terms: D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D008024:Ligands; D008954:Models, Biological; D010539:Permeability; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D061566:Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D061566:Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels