Permeation as a Diffusion Process
arXiv:0807.0721
Abstract
The paper shows how the diffusive movement of ions through a channel protein can be described as a chemical reaction over an arbitrary shaped potential barrier. The result is simple and intuitive but without approximation beyond the electrodiffusion description of ion movement.
This is a posting of a paper written in 2000, for the Biophysics Textbook On Line Channels, Receptors, and Transporters Louis J. DeFelice, Volume Editor which is hard to find. Bob Eisenberg is also known as RS Eisenberg
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