Symposium:               Structure-Function of Mechano-Gated Ion Channels

 

Track:                         Mechano-/Chemotransduction

Saturday, 10:30 AM—12:30 PM, 32

Chaired:                       Masahiro Sokabe and Frederick Sachs

 

10:30 AM                    Structural transitions in mechano-gated channels. Valeria Vasquez. Univ. of Virginia.

 

11:00 AM                    Mechanical and amphiphile sensitivity of eukaryotic K selective mechano-gated ion channels. Eric Honoré. CNRS-UMR.

 

11:30 AM                    Peptide reagents for mechano-gated ion channels. Frederick Sachs. State Univ. of New York.

 

12:00 PM                    Structure-function of mechano-gated BK channels from heart. Masahiro Sokabe. Nagoya Univ.