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What makes a sodium channel?

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Action potentials in mammalian nerve and muscle are carried by sodium currents through voltage-gated sodium channels (NaV). These proteins are part of the larger family of voltage-gated channels that includes the well-known calcium (CaV) and potassium (KV) channels, as well as a variety of other

Source: The Journal of General Physiology

DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201611652

Author: Benjamin J. Liebeskind

Institution: The University of Texas at Austin

Language: English

Topic: Ion channel regulation and function

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Award: Evolutionary Biophysics of Slo3 Potassium Channels