Figure 4: Three ions in the potassium channel. From the medical point of view, the story is just beginning. Considering their ubiquity, it seems safe to predict that ion channel mutations will be ...

For this article, author Jennifer Fisher Wilson interviewed Roderick MacKinnon, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at ...

The ion pathway contains a narrow selectivity filter (yellow ... 1,2 In May the group published its latest findings, which show what the potassium channel looks like when it is open and how ... Lab ...

How does the heart beat out its regular rhythm for decades? How do our eyes process the light and color before them? Ion channels control or regulate diverse physiological activities in our body.

Cell membranes contain channels that selectively permit ions to move into or out of the cell. In a recently published paper, researchers from the University of Fukui and Kanazawa University ...

which facilitates the flow of potassium ions out of cells. Using advanced structural imaging and computer modeling techniques ...

you have to have the right combination of ion channels and transporters." More information: Shridhar Sanghvi et al, Functional large-conductance calcium and voltage-gated potassium channels in ...