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Potassium Channels and the Atomic Basis of Selective Ion Conduction (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
MacKin Roderick
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200400662
Subject(s) - closing (real estate) , ion channel , ion , thermal conduction , mechanism (biology) , potassium channel , chemistry , physics , biophysics , biology , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , biochemistry , receptor , political science , law
Closing in on the facts : The key to understanding the transport of K + ions through the cell membrane lay in the structure elucidation of a K + ion channel (see picture). The studies of Roderick MacKinnon and co‐workers have contributed significantly to the understanding of this research area. In his Nobel Lecture, he describes the structural characteristics of K + ion channels as well as a possible mechanism for ion conduction.