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Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Ion Channels [PDF]

Physiological Reviews, 2002
Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels are nonselective cation channels first identified in retinal photoreceptors and olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs). They are opened by the direct binding of cyclic nucleotides, cAMP and cGMP. Although their activity shows very little voltage dependence, CNG channels belong to the superfamily of voltage-gated ion ...
U Benjamin, Kaupp, Reinhard, Seifert
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Receptor‐Free Identification of Toxic Gases Enabled by Hygroscopic Aqueous Salt Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Water as a gas sensor coating sounds impossible—until it stops evaporating. Here, hygroscopic salt solutions (LiCl, LiBr, H3PO4) form non‐drying aqueous films on CNT chemiresistors under ambient air. Gases partition into these liquid layers, sometimes transforming into water, and generate salt‐specific resistance fingerprints across a four‐channel ...
Seongwoo Lee, Yun‐Tae Kim, Hwarang Choi, Sanghwan Park, Seongyeop Lim, Chang Young Lee   +5 more
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The First Extracellular Domain Plays an Important Role in Unitary Channel Conductance of Cx50 Gap Junction Channels.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Gap junction (GJ) channels provide direct passage for ions and small molecules to be exchanged between neighbouring cells and are crucial for many physiological processes.
Xiaoling Tong, Hiroshi Aoyama, Swathy Sudhakar, Honghong Chen, Brian H Shilton, Donglin Bai   +5 more
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Structural Plasticity of the Selectivity Filter in Cation Channels

Frontiers in Physiology, 2021
Ion channels allow for the passage of ions across biological membranes, which is essential for the functioning of a cell. In pore loop channels the selectivity filter (SF) is a conserved sequence that forms a constriction with multiple ion binding sites.
Kitty Hendriks, Carl Öster, Adam Lange, Adam Lange   +3 more
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Swelling‐Programmed Topographical Guidance for Dynamic Spheroid Self‐Assembly via a Mechanochemical Hydrogel Niche

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A swelling‐programmed micropatterned hydrogel guides adherent cells through a controlled transition from cell–matrix anchoring to cadherin‐mediated cell–cell compaction, enabling rapid assembly of high‐viability spheroids with defined size and morphology.
Han Gyeol Nam, Seon Yeong Chae, Young Woo Kwon, Hye Jin Heo, Hye Rin Lee, Ji Hyeok Lee, Dong‐Wook Han, Yun Hak Kim, Suck Won Hong   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Solution‐Processed Two‐Dimensional Indium Oxide on Sodium‐Embedded Alumina for Reconfigurable Optoelectronic Synaptic Transistors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Wafer‐scale two‐dimensioanl In2Se3 oxidized into InOx on sodium‐embedded beta‐alumina enables multifunctional reconfigurable electronics. Sodium ions accumulate within distinct spatial distribution under drain‐controlle and gate‐controlled operation. Drain‐control operation gives controllability of ultraviolet‐driven optoelectronic synaptic conductance
Jinhong Min, Yonghyun Albert Kwon, Hyunbin Kim, Jihyun Kim, Myeongjin Jung, Jaewon Heo, Gwang Ya Kim, Vlastimil Mazanek, Zdeněk Sofer, In Soo Kim, Jeong Ho Cho, Hyesung Park, Sang Min Won, Joohoon Kang   +13 more
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Stochastic models of ion channel gating

Scholarpedia, 2008
Stochastic models of ion channel gating date back as far as the pioneering work of Hodgkin and Huxley (1952), whose gating variables are often interpreted as probabilities. Sakmann and Neher directed the efforts that led to the first single-channel recordings, for which they won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1991.
Tilman Kispersky, John A. White
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Optical control of an ion channel gate [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
Significance Engineered light-sensitive ion channels offer the opportunity to govern electrical activity of neurons. To date, developed strategies have relied on specific actions on either ligand-binding or permeation pathways. Here we developed a unique and versatile method, in which the gating machinery of an ATP-activated channel ...
Lemoine, Damien, Habermacher, Chloé, Martz, Adeline, Méry, Pierre-François, Bouquier, Nathalie, Diverchy, Fanny, Taly, Antoine, Rassendren, François, Specht, Alexandre, Grutter, Thomas   +9 more
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Chiral Phase Change Nanomaterials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work demonstrates reversible, non‐volatile phase transitions in chiral Ge2${\rm Ge}_2$Sb2${\rm Sb}_2$Te5${\rm Te}_5$ (GST) nanohelices for high‐speed optical modulation of chirality and dynamic control of the state of polarization (SOP). The chiral nanostructures are fabricated using a highly directional, wafer‐scale physical vapor deposition ...
Joshua A. Burrow, Md Shah Alam, Riad Yahiaoui, Evan M. Smith, Ryan Laing, Jules Gardener, Thomas A. Searles, Piyush J. Shah, Shivashankar Vangala, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Andrew M. Sarangan, Imad Agha   +11 more
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The isolated voltage sensing domain of the Shaker potassium channel forms a voltage-gated cation channel

eLife, 2016
Domains in macromolecular complexes are often considered structurally and functionally conserved while energetically coupled to each other. In the modular voltage-gated ion channels the central ion-conducting pore is surrounded by four voltage sensing ...
Juan Zhao, Rikard Blunck
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