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Beam me up, Scottie! TREK channels swing both ways

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TREK1 was known as a voltage-independent 'background' potassium channel, but a new study suggests that protein kinase A can reversibly convert it to a voltage-dependent state.

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Figure 1: At rest (left), unphosphorylated TREK1 channels help set the resting membrane potential.

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Maylie, J., Adelman, J. Beam me up, Scottie! TREK channels swing both ways. Nat Neurosci 4, 457–458 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/87402

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