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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 587 - 588 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.292
Subject Categories: Nanosensors and other devices | Synthesis and processing
Protein engineering: Electrifying cell receptors
Atheir Abbas1 & Bryan L. Roth2
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Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
e-mail: aia4@case.edu -
Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516, USA.
e-mail: bryan_roth@med.unc.edu
Abstract
Ion channels can be attached to certain types of protein receptors in cells to make a detector–switch pair that could be used in various sensing and screening applications.
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