Molecular Insights into Membrane Protein Function
This collection delves into the molecular evolution of membrane proteins, focusing on ion channels, transporters, and receptors. The articles explore a diverse range of topics, from the transport of metformin metabolites by small multidrug resistance proteins in bacteria to the distinct functional properties and pharmacology of honeybee voltage-gated calcium channels. Additional topics include the optimization of CFTR gating through its extracellular loop, the regulation of ion channel activation and inactivation and how mutations linked to epilepsy and channelopathies alter ion channel function. This collection has been curated to coincide with the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society of General Physiologists, “Molecular Evolution in the Membrane: Ion Channels, Transporters, and Receptors.”
You are invited to submit papers on the topic of the symposium through our call for papers, to be published throughout the year and highlighted in a special issue. Guest editors of the special issue are Lucy Forrest of the National Institutes of Health and Randy Stockbridge of the University of Michigan. They are assisted in handling the reviews of submitted manuscripts by JGP Associate Editors Chris Lingle of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Crina Nimigean of Weill Cornell Medicine. Learn more here.
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