A new role for a tiny linker in transmembrane ion channels
Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 16:40
in Biology & Nature
In the molecular-level world of ion channels—passageways through membranes that carry signals in a cell's environment and allow it to respond—researchers have debated about the role of a small piece of the channel called a linker, says computational biophysicist Jianhan Chen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.