Molecular movement of the voltage sensor in a K channel.

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The X-ray crystallographic structure of KvAP, a voltage-gated bacterial K channel, was recently published. However, the position and the molecular movement of the voltage sensor, S4, are still controversial. For example, in the crystallographic structure, S4 is located far away (>30 A) from the pore domain, whereas electrostatic experiments have suggested that S4 is located close (<8 A) to the pore domain in open...

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