ReviewPhysiological reviews2008
Ion channels in microbes.
Review in Physiological reviews, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 202 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Design of Ultrasound-Driven Charge Interference Therapy for Wound Infection.Nano letters · 2024Article
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of the proton motive force on single bacterial cells.Science advances · 2024Article
- Intermittent proton bursts of single lactic acid bacteria.Chemical science · 2024Article
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- Exploring Flexibility and Folding Patterns Throughout Time in Voltage Sensors.Journal of molecular evolution · 2023Article
- Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again).Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Bioelectrical State of Bacteria Is Linked to Growth Dynamics and Response to Neurotransmitters: Perspectives for the Investigation of the Microbiota-Brain Axis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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- A novel proteinaceous molecule produced byMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2023Article
- An electrophysiological and kinematic model of Paramecium, the "swimming neuron".PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Approaches for the modulation of mechanosensitive MscL channel pores.Frontiers in chemistry · 2023Review
- Down the membrane hole: Ion channels in protozoan parasites.PLoS pathogens · 2022Review
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- Mineralogy, morphology, and reaction kinetics of ureolytic bio-cementation in the presence of seawater ions and varying soil materials.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The T1-tetramerisation domain of Kv1.2 rescues expression and preserves function of a truncated NaChBac sodium channel.FEBS letters · 2022Article
- Evolution of Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Ion Channels in Antarctic Fishes (Cryonotothenioidea) and Identification of Putative Thermosensors.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Studies of ion channels have for long been dominated by the animalcentric, if not anthropocentric, view of physiology. The structures and activities of ion channels had, however, evolved long before the appearance of complex multicellular organisms on earth. The diversity of ion channels existing in cellular membranes of prokaryotes is a good example. Although at first it may appear as a paradox that most of what we know about the structure of eukaryotic ion channels is based on the structure of bacterial channels, this should not be surprising given the evolutionary relatedness of all living organisms and suitability of microbial cells for structural studies of biological macromolecules in a laboratory environment. Genome sequences of the human as well as various microbial, plant, and animal organisms unambiguously established the evolutionary links, whereas crystallographic studies of the structures of major types of ion channels published over the last decade clearly demonstrated the advantage of using microbes as experimental organisms. The purpose of this review is not only to provide an account of acquired knowledge on microbial ion channels but also to show that the study of microbes and their ion channels may also hold a key to solving unresolved molecular mysteries in the future.
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