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Prokaryotes offer hope for potassium channel structural studies

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An exciting breakthrough in ion channel studies will be the determination of their structures. A potassium channel structure may be on the horizon.

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MacKinnon, R., Doyle, D. Prokaryotes offer hope for potassium channel structural studies. Nat Struct Mol Biol 4, 877–879 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb1197-877

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