Potentially indicating the location of Noah's Ark, researchers at Turkey's Durupinar site have uncovered promising evidence ...

The TWIK-2 potassium channel is a member of the two-pore domain potassium (K2P) channel superfamily and a potential therapeutic target to control severe inflammatory injury involving the NLRP3 ...

Since 1998, Roderick MacKinnon, head of molecular neurobiology and biophysics, Rockefeller University, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, and colleagues have published papers ...

In Arabidopsis, the outward-rectifying potassium channel GORK drives potassium ... More information: Xue Zhang et al, GORK K+ channel structure and gating vital to informing stomatal engineering ...

Since they were originally identified 25 years ago, the ubiquitous nature of these channels has been revealed. Additionally, Kv7 proteins have assembly and regulatory features that are unique among ...

BK channels, for instance, conduct the flow of potassium ions and inherited mutations ... Dr. Nimigean and her team have been exploring the structure and function of BK channels, both directly ...

14 These emerging techniques may be used to predict the structure of proteins and generate protein-protein complexes. Thus, these innovative tools enable the investigation into the function, ...

Kinbara, the researchers tweaked the structure of a complex organic molecule ... Kinbara say, "The fact that a supramolecular ion channel formed by C FF possesses such stimuli responsiveness and ...

Tiny ion channels are responsible for transporting potassium and sodium to our cells. In the process, ions must pass through a bottleneck, referred to as the selectivity filter. Although the structure ...

joined forces with protein manufacturing company Cube Biotech and Bayer's Crop Science division to reveal the structure and function of a potassium ion channel from fruit flies. Their newly ...

The cryo-EM structure provides groundbreaking insights into the ... and PD. There are a variety of potassium channels involved in regulating the action potential of cardiomyocytes, mainly including ...

"Sodium channels operate in concert with calcium channels and potassium channels to drive ... "Our high-resolution cryoEM structure of this iconic sodium channel gives new structure/function ...