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SUBMITTER: Kloda A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2685541 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Archaea (Vancouver, B.C.) 20020301 1
The ubiquity of mechanosensitive (MS) channels triggered a search for their functional homologs in Archaea. Archaeal MS channels were found to share a common ancestral origin with bacterial MS channels of large and small conductance, and sequence homology with several proteins that most likely function as MS ion channels in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell-walled organisms. Although bacterial and archaeal MS channels differ in conductive and mechanosensitive properties, they share similar gating ...[more]