Ion channel receptors are usually multimeric proteins located in the plasma membrane. Each of these proteins arranges itself so that it forms a passageway or pore extending from one side of the ...

Ion channel proteins are found on all cell types and allow the passage of ions across cellular membranes. They are involved in a wide variety of biological processes and are implicated in many ...

Single Ion Channel Recordings with CMOS-Anchored Lipid Membranes. Nano Letters, 2013; 130507161814004 DOI: 10.1021/nl400822r ...

Scientists have discovered that an ion-channel mutation that causes epilepsy may do so by making part of the channel protein stiffer, so that the channel toggles open more easily. This is the ...

More information: Chenggong Hui et al, Effective polarization in potassium channel simulations: Ion conductance, occupancy, voltage response, and selectivity, Proceedings of the National Academy ...

How these proteins remove fluoride ions from the cell is poorly understand. To glimpse into the inner workings of these proteins, researchers in Christopher Miller’s lab at Brandeis University in ...

Ion channel CRO Metrion Biosciences has reached a collaboration agreement with Venomtech to utilize the latter’s venom library in search of novel ion channel modulators.

Deactivating one ion channel made mice smarter, turning off the other increased motivation Zweifel and colleagues hypothesized that two ion channels – Kv4.3, a type of potassium channel, and BKCa1.1, ...

They studied two types of voltage-gated potassium channels and the HCN channel, which conducts both potassium and sodium, in layer 5 pyramidal neurons, a type of excitatory neurons found in the ...

In plants, guard cells control the stomatal opening by expanding and contracting through ion flux. When a plant senses light, a signal is sent to the guard cell to increase its ion content, which ...