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Protonation state of E71 in KcsA and its role for channel collapse and inactivation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Sept 2012
Bhate Manasi P, McDermott Ann E
Abstract excerpt
The prototypical prokaryotic potassium channel KcsA alters its pore depending on the ambient potassium; at high potassium, it exists in a conductive form, and at low potassium, it collapses into a nonconductive structure with reduced ion occupancy. We present solid-state NMR studies of KcsA in which we test the hypothesis that an important channel-inactivation process, known as C-type inactivation, proceeds via a...
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