GluN1-2B-2D movements (VIDEO)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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This 3D animation, from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Hiro Furukawa and postdoc Hyunook Kang, illustrates the tension-and-release mechanism that controls how brain receptor GluN1-2B-2D opens and closes its ion channel pore.

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Furukawa lab/CSHL

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