title: Potassium channels and their evolving gates.
abstract: Potassium channels allow potassium ions to flow across the membrane and play a key role in maintaining membrane potential. Recent research has begun to reveal how these channels transport potassium in preference to other ions, how their activity is controlled, and how they are related to other channels.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0724.
authors.forename: L Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Jan
authors.forename: Y N
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Jan
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000502:physiology; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000502:physiology; D004594:Electrophysiology; D015640:Ion Channel Gating / Q000502:physiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D011188:Potassium / Q000378:metabolism; D015221:Potassium Channels / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D015221:Potassium Channels; D011188:Potassium