Open AccessVoltage Sensing Comes to Rest
Author(s) -
Izhar Karbat,
Eitan Reuveny
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2019.07.013
Subject(s) - biology , voltage , sodium channel , rest (music) , key (lock) , voltage gated ion channel , ion channel , channel (broadcasting) , event (particle physics) , biophysics , sodium , electrical engineering , physics , genetics , materials science , engineering , ecology , acoustics , receptor , quantum mechanics , metallurgy
Voltage sensing by ion channels is the key event enabling the generation and propagation of electrical activity in excitable cells. In this issue of Cell, Wisedchaisri et al. provide a structural view of a voltage-gated sodium channel in its resting closed conformation.
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