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Hysteretic Conductance in Ion Channel Gating [PDF]
EntropyHysteresis seems to play a critical role in the generation and modulation of electrical signal events in neurons, muscles, and other excitable tissues. In voltage-gated ion channels, hysteretic conductance manifests under cycling changes in transmembrane
Bartek Lisowski +3 more
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Voltage-dependent gating in a "voltage sensor-less" ion channel.
PLoS Biology, 2010 The voltage sensitivity of voltage-gated cation channels is primarily attributed to conformational changes of a four transmembrane segment voltage-sensing domain, conserved across many levels of biological complexity.
Harley T Kurata +4 more
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PLoS Computational Biology, 2010 Neuronal activity is mediated through changes in the probability of stochastic transitions between open and closed states of ion channels. While differences in morphology define neuronal cell types and may underlie neurological disorders, very little is ...
Robert C Cannon +2 more
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Similarity of the ion occupations of K+ and Tl+ in the selectivity filter of a K+ channel, as verified by single-channel currents [PDF]
ChannelsVoltage-dependent gating in the selectivity filter of potassium channels is modulated by the permeating ions binding within the filter. In the viral Kcv channel, filter gating occurs on the sub-millisecond time scale.
Lena Diederich +3 more
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Information Entropy Metrics to Address the Complexity of Cooperative Gating of Ion Channels [PDF]
EntropyIon channels in biological membranes can form spatially localized clusters that exhibit cooperative gating behavior. In this mode, the activity of one channel modulates the opening probability of its neighbors.
Agata Wawrzkiewicz-Jałowiecka +3 more
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Concatenated modular BK channel constructs reveal divergent stoichiometry in gating control by LRRC26 (γ1), pore, and selectivity filter [PDF]
eLifeBig-conductance, Ca²+-activated K+ (BK) channels consist of Ca²+- and voltage-sensing, pore-forming α (BKα) subunits and regulatory auxiliary β or γ subunits. Concatenated subunit constructs are powerful tools for elucidating subunit stoichiometry in ion
Guanxing Chen +3 more
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Unmasking coupling between channel gating and ion permeation in the muscle nicotinic receptor
eLife, 2021 Whether ion channel gating is independent of ion permeation has been an enduring, unresolved question. Here, applying single channel recording to the archetypal muscle nicotinic receptor, we unmask coupling between channel gating and ion permeation by ...
John R Strikwerda, Steven M Sine
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Voltage-Gated Ion Channels [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, 2005 Voltage-dependent ion channels are membrane proteins that conduct ions at high rates regulated by the voltage across the membrane. They play a fundamental role in the generation and propagation of the nerve impulse and in cell homeostasis. The voltage sensor is a region of the protein bearing charged amino acids that relocate upon changes in the ...
Sands, Z, Grottesi, A, Sansom, MS
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The gates of ion channels and enzymes [PDF]
Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2010 Protein dynamics are essential for virtually all protein functions, certainly for gating mechanisms of ion channels and regulation of enzyme catalysis. Ion channels usually feature a gate in the channel pore that prevents ion permeation in the closed state.
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Nature Communications, 2022 Visualizing conformational changes during ion channel gating is crucial to understand their regulation. Here, Gao et al. capture multiple gating intermediates in a CNG channel as well as subtle, lateral voltage sensor movements necessary for channel ...
Xiaolong Gao +6 more
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