Kavli Affiliate: Roderick MacKinnon | Authors: George Vaisey and Roderick MacKinnon | Summary: Piezo1 ion channels are widely expressed cellular mechanosensors. They adopt an intrinsically curved shape when closed and are thought to open when mechanical forces applied to the membrane favor a more flattened conformation. By reconstituting Piezo1 channels into lipid vesicles, a flattened […]
Continue.. Lipid composition and mechanical force underlie multi-modal regulation of Piezo1 gating