Self-Optimized Biological Channels in Facilitating the Transmembrane Movement of Charged Molecules

Figure 6

Resonant channel potential is an intrinsic characteristic of the channel. (a) versus curves extracted from Figure 5 for some values of (from bottom: , and 5). All these curves show their maximum at the same resonant potential, (indicated by the arrow). (b) as a function of at for various values of the ratio (from top: , , , and ). The resonant potential (indicated by the arrow) is independent of reservoirs particle concentration ratio and coincides with determined in Figure 6(a). Note: in the case of the current is negative (flowing from right to left in Figure 1(a)) and reaches the largest magnitude at the same .

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