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Structure of the TRPV1 ion channel determined by electron cryo-microscopy

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, December 2013
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Title
Structure of the TRPV1 ion channel determined by electron cryo-microscopy
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Nature, December 2013
DOI 10.1038/nature12822
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Authors

Maofu Liao, Erhu Cao, David Julius, Yifan Cheng

Abstract

Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are sensors for a wide range of cellular and environmental signals, but elucidating how these channels respond to physical and chemical stimuli has been hampered by a lack of detailed structural information. Here we exploit advances in electron cryo-microscopy to determine the structure of a mammalian TRP channel, TRPV1, at 3.4 Å resolution, breaking the side-chain resolution barrier for membrane proteins without crystallization. Like voltage-gated channels, TRPV1 exhibits four-fold symmetry around a central ion pathway formed by transmembrane segments 5-6 (S5-S6) and the intervening pore loop, which is flanked by S1-S4 voltage-sensor-like domains. TRPV1 has a wide extracellular 'mouth' with a short selectivity filter. The conserved 'TRP domain' interacts with the S4-S5 linker, consistent with its contribution to allosteric modulation. Subunit organization is facilitated by interactions among cytoplasmic domains, including amino-terminal ankyrin repeats. These observations provide a structural blueprint for understanding unique aspects of TRP channel function.

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Country Count As %
United States 13 <1%
United Kingdom 9 <1%
Chile 6 <1%
Japan 3 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Denmark 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Other 10 <1%
Unknown 1537 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 392 25%
Researcher 297 19%
Student > Bachelor 205 13%
Student > Master 158 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 73 5%
Other 192 12%
Unknown 273 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 464 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 385 24%
Chemistry 127 8%
Neuroscience 74 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 70 4%
Other 165 10%
Unknown 305 19%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 167. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 January 2023.
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