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Movement and crevices around a sodium channel S3 segment.
The Journal of general physiology - 1 Sept 2002
Nguyen Thao P, Horn Richard
Abstract excerpt
Voltage sensing is due mainly to the movement of positively charged S4 segments through the membrane electric field during changes of membrane potential. The roles of other transmembrane segments are under study. The S3 segment of domain 4 (D4/S3) in the sodium channel Na(v)1.4 carries two negatively charged residues and has been implicated in voltage-dependent gating. We substituted cysteines into nine putative...
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