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Wassim Elkhatib1,2, Luis A Yanez-Guerra3, Tatiana D Mayorova4

  • 1Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada.

Communications biology
|September 18, 2023
PubMed
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研究人员在Trichoplax adhaerens中发现了一种新型的质子通道,TadNaC2. 这一发现表明非双边无脊椎动物中ASIC类通道的独立进化,扩大了我们对Deg/ENaC通道多样性的理解.

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