title: A sensitive channel family replete with sense and motion.
abstract: Two new studies demonstrate that transmembrane voltage-sensing domains can act without an obvious pore-forming domain to sense membrane potential changes and make a proton-selective pore.
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Minor
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification / Q000378:metabolism*; D017136:Ion Transport; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011522:Protons
chemical_list: D007473:Ion Channels; D011522:Protons