Carriers and channels: current progress and future prospects

✍ Scribed by Thomas W Bell

• Book ID: 104415090
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 674 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1367-5931
• DOI: 10.1016/s1367-5931(98)80108-7

✦ Synopsis

Recent advances in the understanding of biological transport and in the design of artificial transport systems have resulted from the structural elucidation of the K+ ion channel and from synthesis of artificial receptors for cations and anions, as well as neutral and zwitterionic organic molecules. Sensors, gated carriers, and self-assembling capsules and nanotubes are all important offsprings of current efforts to mimic natural transport across biomembranes.