An iris diaphragm mechanism to gate a cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel

oleh: Arin Marchesi, Xiaolong Gao, Ricardo Adaixo, Jan Rheinberger, Henning Stahlberg, Crina Nimigean, Simon Scheuring

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-09-01

Deskripsi

Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) ion channels are non-selective cation channels key to signal transduction, but conformational changes associated with gating remained unknown. Here authors use high-speed atomic force microscopy to visualize SthK channels dynamics in response to cyclic nucleotides.