Cracking Open a New Channel Family
Cracking Open a New Channel Family Michael CahalanCourtesy of Karinne Cahalan What lessons can hearing-channel researchers learn from a similar but ultimately successful search? By Kerry Grens Related Articles 1-3 Orai is a four-transmembrane protein with high calcium selectivity that interacts with a calcium sensor called Stim to mediate calcium influx. CRAC bears "no channel homology, obviously, [and] no classical pore sequence,

Nov 1, 2007
Cracking Open a New Channel Family

Michael Cahalan
Courtesy of Karinne Cahalan
Courtesy of Karinne Cahalan
What lessons can hearing-channel researchers learn from a similar but ultimately successful search?
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