Miller C
HHMI and Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
Genome Biol. 2000;1(4):REVIEWS0004. doi: 10.1186/gb-2000-1-4-reviews0004. Epub 2000 Oct 13.
Potassium channels, tetrameric integral membrane proteins that form aqueous pores through which K+ can flow, are found in virtually all organisms; the genomes of humans, Drosophila, and Caenorhabditis elegans contain 30-100 K+ channel genes each. The structure of a bacterial K+ channel, sequence comparisons with other channels and electrophysiological measurements have enabled conclusions about the mechanism of gating and ion flow to be drawn for many other channels.
钾通道是一种四聚体整合膜蛋白,可形成允许K+通过的水性孔道,几乎存在于所有生物体中;人类、果蝇和秀丽隐杆线虫的基因组中各自含有30 - 100个钾通道基因。细菌钾通道的结构、与其他通道的序列比较以及电生理测量,使得人们能够得出许多其他通道的门控机制和离子流动机制的结论。