Maria Vittoria Leonardi

The wild-type hERG cryo-EM structure fails to support conduction and evolve toward an inactivated-like selectivity filter conformation in molecular dynamics simulations

The atomic structure of the human Ether-à-go-go–Related Gene (hERG) K+ channel has recently been resolved by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) under both high- and low-K+ conditions, in order to obtain information on the mechanism of the K+-sensitive, very rapid C-type inactivation typical of this channel. Although th...