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ArticleBiophysical journal2020

Metal Bridge in S4 Segment Supports Helix Transition in Shaker Channel.

Carlos A Z Bassetto, João Luis Carvalho-de-Souza, Francisco Bezanilla

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Fifty years of gating currents and channel gating.The Journal of general physiology · 2023
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  4. Mechanism of voltage gating in the voltage-sensing phosphatase Ci-VSP.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Carlos A Z BassettoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
João Luis Carvalho-de-SouzaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Francisco BezanillaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile. Electronic address: fbezanilla@uchicago.edu.
University of Chicago · US

Funding

The Electrophysiological Studies of Voltage Gated ChannelsR01GM030376 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BEZANILLA, FRANCISCO J · 1985 to 2025
$9.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM030376
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Voltage-gated ion channels play important roles in physiological processes, especially in excitable cells, in which they shape the action potential. In S4-based voltage sensors voltage-gated channels, a common feature is shared; the transmembrane segment 4 (S4) contains positively charged residues intercalated by hydrophobic residues. Although several advances have been made in understating how S4 moves through a hydrophobic plug upon voltage changes, the possible helix transition from α- to 3

Indexed as

Ion Channel GatingShaker Superfamily of Potassium ChannelsHistidineHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsProtein Structure, SecondaryHistidineShaker Superfamily of Potassium Channels

Identifiers

PMID31635788
PMCPMC7037500
OpenAlexW2971939453

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