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Ion channels: a first view of K+ channels in atomic glory
1Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|July 4, 1998
Abstract:
Crystal structures have been solved for the transbilayer pore domain of a bacterial K+ channel and the tetramerisation domain of voltage-gated K+ channel. These provide our first real structural insights into possible mechanisms of ion selectivity and permeation for K+ channels.