Potassium channels can be closed by a process known as inactivation — this is, for instance, how nerve cells regulate firing frequency. Events involved in inactivation are now revealed in unprecedented detail.
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Aldrich, R. Fifty years of inactivation. Nature 411, 643–644 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35079705
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