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ArticleeLife2017

Mechanism of activation at the selectivity filter of the KcsA K

Florian T Heer, David J Posson, Wojciech Wojtas-Niziurski, Crina M Nimigean, Simon Bernèche

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Selectivity filter ion binding affinity determines inactivation in a potassium channel.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  19. TOK channels use the two gates in classical KFASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Florian T HeerSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
David J PossonDepartment of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6491-8238
Wojciech Wojtas-NiziurskiSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Crina M NimigeanDepartment of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6254-4447
Simon BernècheSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6274-4094
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CHCornell University · US

Funding

Molecular Mechanisms of Potassium Channel Permeation and GatingR01GM088352 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI NIMIGEAN, CRINA M · 2010 to 2025
$5.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM088352
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Potassium channels are opened by ligands and/or membrane potential. In voltage-gated K

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsIon Channel GatingMolecular Dynamics SimulationPotassiumPotassium Channels, Voltage-GatedProtein ConformationBacterial ProteinsPotassiumPotassium Channels, Voltage-Gatedallosterybiophysicsconductancefree energy calculationsgatingion channelmolecular dynamicsnonepH gatedstructural biology

Identifiers

PMID28994652
PMCPMC5669632
OpenAlexW2762489564

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