A proton pore in a potassium channel voltage sensor reveals a focused electric field

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6974, 2004, Pages 548-553

  Starace, Dorine M ^a   Bezanilla, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIPIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POTASSIUM; SENSORS;

POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; VOLTAGE SENSITIVITY;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

ARGININE; HISTIDINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; WATER;

BIOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION TRANSPORT; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTONS; SHAKER SUPERFAMILY OF POTASSIUM CHANNELS; WATER;

AEROPYRUM PERNIX; ANIMALIA;

EID: 1142274549     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02270     Document Type: Article

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