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Nature Chemical Biology 2, 298 - 299 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0606-298

Wanting contact: how to pick up a channel

Daniel L Minor, Jr1

  1. Daniel L. Minor, Jr. is at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, the Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics and of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, and the California Institute of Quantitative Biomedical Research at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-2532, USA. e-mail: daniel.minor@ucsf.edu


Because of their transmembrane nature, ion channels are notoriously difficult subjects for high-throughput screening approaches. A new method has been developed that provides a simple, elegant and rapid means for assaying channel function.

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