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ASB2009
The 33rd Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics will be held in Ballarat.
1pm Sunday November 29 to lunch Wednesday December 2nd 2009.
Conference Organising Committee: Andrew Clayton, Frances Separovic and John Gehman

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Putative changes in the M2 domain selectivity filter region of the glycine receptor-channel (GlyR) with mutations that reverse ion selectivity (from the Issue Cover figure and Fig. of Keramidas et al. (2002) J. Gen. Physiol. 119: 393-410). This region in the anion-selective wild type alpha 1 GlyR subunit (top) is shown having a partially hydrated Cl- ion closely interacting with the positive arginine residues (R0'), with a small minimum pore diameter, whereas in the cation-selective mutant GlyR (with A-1'E and P-2'; bottom), with the larger minimum pore diameter, it is shown as having a more hydrated Na+ ion interacting with negative glutamate residues.

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Last updated on 1 June 2009