Since 1998, Roderick MacKinnon, head of molecular neurobiology and biophysics, Rockefeller University, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, and colleagues have published papers ...

Potassium chloride (KCI) is a form of salt that doctors prescribe to treat low potassium levels in the blood. You may have lower-than-normal potassium levels in your blood because of a disease or ...

Each subunit has its own pore for chloride ions to pass through. The potassium ion channel, by contrast, is a tetramer, meaning its overall structure comprises four identical or similar subunits.