GATING OF A PH-SENSITIVE K(2P) POTASSIUM CHANNEL BY AN ELECTROSTATIC EFFECT OF BASIC SENSOR RESIDUES ON THE SELECTIVITY FILTER.

Gating of a pH-sensitive K(2P) potassium channel by an electrostatic effect of basic sensor residues on the selectivity filter.

K(+) channels share common selectivity characteristics but exhibit a wide diversity in how they are gated open.Leak K(2P) K(+) channels TASK-2, TALK-1 and TALK-2 are gated open by extracellular alkalinization.The mechanism for this alkalinization-dependent gating has been proposed to be the neutralization of the side chain of a single arginine (lys

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First record of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae, Ooderini) from the Arabian Peninsula, with the description of four new species

The genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae) is recorded for the first swan river daisy seeds time for the Arabian Peninsula, from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman.The present study is based on specimens reared from xylophagous beetle larvae of the family Buprestidae (Coleoptera) infesting dead Acaci

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