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Carriers and channels: current progress and future prospects
1Department of Chemistry MS216 University of Nevada Reno NV 89557 USA. twb@unr.edu
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
|January 23, 1999
Abstract:
Recent advances in the understanding of biological transport and in the design of artificial transport systems have resulted from the structural elucidation of the K+ ion channel and from synthesis of artificial receptors for cations and anions, as well as neutral and zwitterionic organic molecules. Sensors, gated carriers, and self-assembling capsules and nanotubes are all important offsprings of current efforts to mimic natural transport across biomembranes.