title: Channel gating: twist to open.
abstract: Recent studies of the bacterial mechanosensitive channel MscL have combined a number of different approaches to come up with a model for the channel gating mechanism.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Oxford, The Rex Richards Building, South Parks Road, OX1 3QU, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Biggin
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Sansom
mesh_terms: D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D007473:Ion Channels; C086596:MscL protein, E coli