The gating charge should not be estimated by fitting a two-state model to a Q-V curve

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 575-578

  Bezanilla, Francisco ^a   Villalba Galea, Carlos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHANNEL GATING; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84890209378     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201311056     Document Type: Article

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