Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Real-time visualization of conformational changes within single MloK1 cyclic nucleotide-modulated channels

  • Martina Rangl,
  • Atsushi Miyagi,
  • Julia Kowal,
  • Henning Stahlberg,
  • Crina M. Nimigean,
  • Simon Scheuring

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12789
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Some ion channels are modulated by binding of cyclic nucleotide to a cyclic nucleotide-binding domain. Here, the authors use high-speed atomic force microscopy to directly monitor the conformational changes induced by ligand binding to a cyclic nucleotide-modulated channel from Mesorhizobium loti.