BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY A Short Course Second Edition

210 GROUP I AND II METALS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Figure 5.5

(A) Top - down view of the K

+ ion channel, PDB: 1BL8. (B) Side view of the K

+ ion channel, PDB: 1BL8.

ABVisualized using CambridgeSoft Chem3D Ultra 10.0 with notations in ChemDraw Ultra 10.0. (Printed with permission of CambridgeSoft Corporation.) (See color plate)

1BL8

Top-Down View

1BL8

Side View

Extracellular Side

membrane membrane

Intracellular Side

34Å