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Original Articles

Ferroelectric liquid crystal models of ion channels and gating phenomena in biological membranes

Pages 87-93 | Received 13 Aug 1997, Published online: 17 Aug 2006
 

Abstract

Ferroelectric liquid crystal models of voltage-dependent ion channels are discussed quantitatively. The consequences of the hypothesis that the gating mechanism of ion channels is a transition of a ferroelectric liquid crystal component of a biomembrane, in which the tilt angle of the S4 segments decreases to zero, are analyzed.

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