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Voltage-gated proton channel in a dinoflagellate.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Nov 2011
Smith Susan M E, Morgan Deri, Musset Boris, Cherny Vladimir V, Place Allen R, Hastings J Woodland, Decoursey Thomas E
Abstract excerpt
Fogel and Hastings first hypothesized the existence of voltage-gated proton channels in 1972 in bioluminescent dinoflagellates, where they were thought to trigger the flash by activating luciferase. Proton channel genes were subsequently identified in human, mouse, and Ciona intestinalis, but the...
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