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Retaining your identity under stress

Nature Structural Biology volume 9, pages 636–637 (2002)Cite this article

Mechanosensitive ion channels from bacteria open like an iris, with the transmembrane helices tilting into the membrane to make a thin, wide structure with a 3 nm pore.

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