Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 23 (June 8, 2021), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) Although it has long been proposed that membrane proteins may ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 24 (June 16, 2020), pp. 13437-13446 (10 pages) Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs) are ...
Ion channels are transmembrane proteins specifically involved with the transport of inorganic ions like Na+, K+, Ca2+, or Cl-. Ion channels are “gated”, i.e. they open in response to a specific ...
Instrument Seeks to Advance Ligand-Gated Aspect of Critically Important Field The first decade of the 21st century has delivered an extraordinary range of new technologies with relevance to ...
The process of expressing a wide variety of voltage-gated and ligand-gated ion channels enables nociceptors to transduce receptor potential into single action potentials or multiple action potentials.