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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 134, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3575585
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- National Institutes of Health [GM58187, AI23007]
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Ion permeation through transmembrane channels has traditionally been modeled using two different approaches. In one approach, the translocation of the permeant ion through the channel pore is modeled as continuous diffusion and the rate of ion transport is obtained from solving the steady-state diffusion equation. In the other approach, the translocation of the permeant ion through the pore is modeled as hopping along a discrete set of internal binding sites and the rate of ion transport is obtained from solving a set of steady-state rate equations. In a recent work [Zhou, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1, 1973 (2010)], the rate constants for binding to an internal site were further calculated by modeling binding as diffusion-influenced reactions. That work provided the foundation for bridging the two approaches. Here we show that, by representing a binding site as an energy well, the two approaches indeed give the same result for the rate of ion transport. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3575585]
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