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Science 312 (5773): 534-535

Copyright © 2006 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

BIOPHYSICS:
Lonely Voltage Sensor Seeks Protons for Permeation

Christopher Miller

The proton channel that ushers H ions across cell membranes to control cellular pH resembles an isolated voltage-sensing domain with no apparent pore.

The author is in the Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA. E-mail: cmiller{at}brandeis.edu

Science Signaling. ISSN 1937-9145 (pre-2008: Science's STKE. ISSN 1525-8882)