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Nature Chemical Biology 1, 189 - 191 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0905-189

A glimpse at the grail

Dirk Trauner1

  1. Dirk Trauner is in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, 602 Latimer Hall, Berkeley, California, 94720-1460, USA. e-mail: trauner@berkeley.edu

Voltage-gated ion channels respond to alterations in membrane potential and mediate action potential in neurons. A recent study provides new insights into the structure and gating of the Shaker potassium channel.

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