Reconstruction (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Reconstruction

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Structures to the left are models of the pentameric ligand-gated ion channel, which mediate fast synaptic communication by converting chemical signals into an electrical response. The structures on the right are reconstructions of pLGIC from FXS data using M-TIP.

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Jeffrey J. Donatelli, Berkeley Lab

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