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Yeast screens show aromatic residues at the end of the sixth helix anchor transient receptor potential channel gate.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 Sept 2007
Zhou Xinliang, Su Zhenwei, Anishkin Andriy, Haynes W John, Friske Eric M, Loukin Stephen H, Kung Ching, Saimi Yoshiro
Abstract excerpt
Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are first elements in sensing chemicals, heat, and force and are widespread among protists and fungi as well as animals. Despite their importance, the arrangement and roles of the amino acids that constitute the TRP channel gate are unknown. The yeast TRPY1 is activated in vivo by osmotically induced vacuolar membrane deformation and by cytoplasmic Ca(2+). After a...
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