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Title:	Investigating ion transport inside the pentameric ion channel encoded in COVID-19 e protein
Authors:	Saurabh, K;Solovchuk, M;Sheu, TWH
Contributors:	Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine
Abstract:	Ion flow inside an ion channel can be described through continuum based Born-Poisson-Nernst-Planck (BPNP) equations in conjunction with the Lennard-Jones potential. Keeping in mind the ongoing pandemic, in this study, an attempt has been made to understand the selectivity and the current voltage relation of the COVID-19 E protein pentameric ion channel. Two ionic species, namely Na+ and Cl-, have been considered here. E protein is one of the smallest structural protein which is embedded in the outer membrane of the virus. Once the virus is inside the host cell, this protein is expressed abundantly and is responsible for activities such as replication and budding of the virus. In the literature, we can find a few experimental studies focusing on understanding the activity of the channel formed by E proteins of different viruses. Here, we attempt the same study for the COVID-19 E protein ion channel through mathematical modeling. The channel geometry is calculated from the protein data bank file which was provided by NARLabs, Taiwan, using the hole program. Further, it was used to obtain the charge distribution using the pdbtopqr online program. The immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) has been implemented to numerically solve the system of equations in the channel generated by the protein data bank file. Further, an in-house code which operates on multiple GPUs and uses the cuda platform has been developed to achieve the goal of performing the current investigation.
Date:	2020-11-13
Relation:	Physical Review E. 2020 Nov 13;102(5):Article number 52408.
Link to:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.052408
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