An overview of the potassium channel family

Potassium channels, tetrameric integral membrane proteins that form aqueous pores through which K+ can flow, are found in virtually all organisms; the genomes of humans, Drosophila, and Caenorhabditis elegans contain 30-100 K+ channel genes each. The structure of a bacterial K+ channel, sequence comparisons with other channels and electrophysiological measurements have enabled conclusions about the mechanism of gating and ion flow to be drawn for many other channels.

• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Genome Biology

• Publication date

  2000-10-13

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1186/gb-2000-1-4-reviews0004PMID 11178249PMCID 138870
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