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SUBMITTER: Zagotta WN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4727949 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zagotta William N WN Gordon Moshe T MT Senning Eric N EN Munari Mika A MA Gordon Sharona E SE
The Journal of general physiology 20160111 2
Despite recent advances, the structure and dynamics of membrane proteins in cell membranes remain elusive. We implemented transition metal ion fluorescence resonance energy transfer (tmFRET) to measure distances between sites on the N-terminal ankyrin repeat domains (ARDs) of the pain-transducing ion channel TRPV1 and the intracellular surface of the plasma membrane. To preserve the native context, we used unroofed cells, and to specifically label sites in TRPV1, we incorporated a fluorescent, n ...[more]