Dejarlo ir y abrirse, un conjunto de estados activos de canal iónico

Daniel L Minor1

  • 1Cardiovascular Research Institute, Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, and California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158 USA; Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.

Cell
|February 13, 2016
PubMed
Resumen

Para el canal de magnesio CorA, la pérdida de la unión del ligando activa el canal. Este estudio revela que la pérdida de ligando, no la unión, desencadena un conjunto de conformaciones activas.

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