Mechanosensitive ion channels: Part A

by Hamill, Owen P.

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Full title :Mechanosensitive ion channels : Part A / edited by Owen P. Hamill.

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Publication Date:2007.

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Publisher(s):Elsevier
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

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Description:1 online resource (424 pages).

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ISBN:9780121533588, 0121533581
oclc:on1125368853
LC Classification:QH603I54M4362007

Pt. A. Structures of the prokaryotic mechanosensitive channels MscL and MscS -- 3.5 billion years of mechanosensory transduction: structure and function of mechanosensitive channels in prokaryotes -- Activation of mechanosensitive ion channels by forces transmitted through integrins and the cytoskeleton -- Thermodynamics of mechanosensitivity -- Flexoelectricity and mechanotransduction -- Lipid effects on mechanosensitive channels -- Functional interactions of the extracellular matrix with mechanosensitive channels -- MscL: the bacterial mechanosensitive channel of large conductance -- Bacterial mechanosensitive channel MscS: emerging principles of gating and modulation -- Structure-function relations of the MscS -- MscS cytoplasmic domain and its conformational changes on the channel gating -- Microbial TRP channels and their mechanosensitivity -- MscS-like proteins in plants -- Delivering force and amplifying signals in plant mechanosensing -- MS channels in tip-growing systems.