Though the cell membrane is a protective barrier, it also plays a role in letting some foreign material in — via ion channels that dot the cell’s surface. Now new research from the Nobel Prize ...

Pore-forming proteins in living cells, termed ion channels, are embedded in the outer membrane of almost all cell types and ...

Then, when conditions are right, specialized channels in the plasma membrane open and allow rapid ion movement into or out of the cell, and this movement creates an electrical signal. But what do ...

Embedded in the plasma membrane are mechanosensitive ion channels or tunnels that release ions in a response to membrane stretch. Mechanosensitive ion channel 10 (MSL10) is one member of the ...

Harpreet Singh, professor of physiology and cell biology ... last hundred years that ion channels are really, really important to maintain any structure which has a membrane," Singh said.

Voltage-Gated Ion Channels Voltage-gated channels respond to perturbations in cell membrane potential, and are highly selective for a specific ion, i.e., Na+, K+, Ca2+, and Cl-. They are further ...

Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon were awarded the 2003 prize in chemistry for discovering and elucidating the structure of water and ion channels in the cell membrane, work that may one day aid in ...

In this review, we describe the major types of ion channels in PCa epithelial ... an important role in the control of PCa cells growth by regulating membrane potential and passive calcium influxes.

Every cell is like a battery and the ion channels that regulate cells are a bit like transistors, using membrane potential to turn on all kinds of important things,” said Clapham. He joined Louis “Lou ...

"Ion channels are integral membrane proteins that facilitate the passage of ions (charged particles) across the cell membrane," Sasso said. "We found that by restoring the function of these ion ...

image: Liz Haswell's lab at WashU provides insight into how plants sense and respond (including suicide) to mechanical signals, such as cell swelling, rather than chemicals signals, such as ...

Stephen Tucker: Ion channels are literally holes in the cell membrane, and they allow electrically charged particles ('ions') to move from one side of the cell membrane to the other. This is the ...