Building a Temperature-Sensitive Ion Channel
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Building a Temperature-Sensitive Ion Channel
The biophysical basis of temperature-sensitive ion channel gating has been a tough nut to crack. Chowdhury, et al. use a protein engineering approach to render a temperature-insensitive voltage-gated channel cold- or heat-responsive to reveal principles for temperature-gating and a plausible model for molecularly enabling this mode of environmental responsiveness.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cell
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.08.008