Common Mechanism of Pore Opening Shared by Five Different Potassium Channels

Indira Shrivastava and Ivet Bahar       Biophysical Journal (in press) (.pdf)

Movies:

  1. KcsA_torsion_top.mpg
    A movie of the motions observed in slow mode type II, for KcsA, as viewed from the extracellular end.
     
  2. KcsA_torsion_side.mpg
    A movie of the motions observed in slow mode type II , for KcsA, as viewed from the side perpendicular to the channel pore axis.
     
  3. KcsA_torsion_bottom.mpg
    A movie of the motions observed in slow mode type II, for KcsA, as viewed from the intracellular end.
     
  4. Shaker_torsion_top.mpg
    A movie of the motions observed in slow mode type II, Shaker, as viewed from the extracellular end.
     
  5. Shaker_torsion_side.mpg
    A movie of the motions observed in slow mode type II, Shaker, as viewed from side perpendicular to the channel pore axis.
 

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