Single Channel Seeks Permeant Ion for Brief but Intimate Relationship
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Single Channel Seeks Permeant Ion for Brief but Intimate Relationship
Ion channels don't like having their permeant ions taken away. Particularly when they are in the mood to let ions through, this sort of deprivation makes them feel downright unstable. Like jilted lovers, they shut the door and become listless, inactive(-ated), and sometimes even immobilized. Channel physiologists have long tried to ignore this dejected behavior on the part of the channels , eve...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Physiology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0022-1295,1540-7748
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.110.2.83