Lighting Up Single Ion Channels
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New and Notable Lighting Up Single Ion Channels
The holy grail of ion channel studies is to produce an atomic scale movie of an ion channel at work, simultaneously observing conformational and electrical changes as ions flow through the protein. Significant milestones toward this goal include the x-ray crystallography work of Mackinnon et al., which gave us atomic-resolution snapshots of potassium (Zhou et al., 2001) and chloride channels (D...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74827-9