Putting the parts together.
The structures of several different domains and subunits of potassium channels have recently been solved. Reassembling these fragments into a working model of an intact voltage-gated channel will be a major challenge.
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Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics Department of Biochemistry The University of Oxford The Rex Richards Building South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK. mark@biop.ox.ac.uk.
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