The twain shall meet: channels, transporters and things between. Meeting on Membrane Transport in Flux: the Ambiguous Interface Between Channels and Pumps.
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Introduction For many years, studies of ion channels and transport proteins have bred distinct fields with divergent approaches, mindsets and methods. ‘ion channelologists’ focused on gating and permeation, and mumbled about obscure kinetic schemes, whereas ‘transporterologists’ studied substrate coupling and transport kinetics, and mumbled about other obscure kinetic schemes. practitioners of each field generally
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- EMBO reports
دوره 9 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008