Radius of Glycerol conducting channel

Value <=3.5 Angstrom
Organism Bacteria Escherichia coli
Reference Stroud RM, Miercke LJ, O'Connell J, Khademi S, Lee JK, Remis J, Harries W, Robles Y, Akhavan D. Glycerol facilitator GlpF and the associated aquaporin family of channels. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2003 Aug13(4):424-31.PubMed ID12948772
Method X ray crystallography
Comments The channel reaches its narrowest point, a constriction approximately 3.8 Å × 3.4 Å, 8 Å above the central plane of the bilayer and subsequently widens out again toward the cytoplasmic surface.
Entered by Uri M
ID 103682