The screw-helical voltage gating of ion channels.

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Published in Proc Biol Sci on April 22, 1999

Authors

R D Keynes1, F Elinder

Author Affiliations

1: Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. rdk12@cam.ac.uk

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