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. 2009 Dec 18;39(4):609–621. doi: 10.1007/s00249-009-0567-1

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Structures of a the transmembrane parts of the potassium channel KscA (PDB entry 1J95) and b the transmembrane model peptide WALP23, which is used to mimic transmembrane segments of membrane proteins. Only tryptophans are shown with explicit side chains, illustrating the belt of aromatic residues present in the tetrameric KcsA