Neurobiology: X-raying ion channels shows they widen and narrow to adapt to what's passing Date: June 22, 2015 Source: Sissa Medialab Summary: The Nobel Prize winner Roderick MacKinnon suggested ...

The Nobel Prize winner Roderick MacKinnon suggested that ion channels were like rigid tubes through which molecules of varying size move. Now it seems that he was wrong: a team of scientists from ...

Scientists studying the tiny devices -- called voltage-dependent ion channels ... Rockefeller's Roderick MacKinnon, M.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, ...

Potassium Ion Channels. For this article, author Jennifer Fisher Wilson interviewed Roderick MacKinnon, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and head of the Laboratory of Molecular ...

Rockefeller University professor Roderick MacKinnon leads the research lab that solved the structure of the ClC chloride ion channel, Nature’s Jan. 17 cover article. The X-ray structure of the ...

ask Rockefeller University professor Roderick MacKinnon and colleagues in their Jan. 17 Nature cover article describing the three-dimensional structure of a type of chloride channel called the ClC.

Courtesy of Roderick MacKinnon, Rockefeller University Playing gatekeeper to human health, channel proteins penetrate all cell membranes. In the nervous system, armies of channels open and close in ...

When MacKinnon returned as a postdoc, Miller was looking at why a molecule found in scorpion venom blocked ion-channel passage. He had a hunch the venom acted like a cork in a bottle. MacKinnon helped ...

Ion channels let cells generate and transmit electrical signals, and so are key to letting nerve cells communicate. In 1998, MacKinnon determined the first detailed structure of an ion channel, a ...

Roderick MacKinnon, a 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, ... MacKinnon is known for his research with “a class of integral membrane proteins knows as ion channels.

At that time, American biochemist Roderick MacKinnon, M.D., was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work elucidating the potassium channel’s structural details. Dr. MacKinnon suggested, and subsequent ...

Underlying every thought and bodily motion are nerve and muscle cells sending or receiving electrical signals. Driving this activity are voltage-gated ion channels–pores that quickly open or ...