Summary: Jul 7 2011 -- In this podcast we hear an interview by JBC Associate editor Jim Siedow with Riccardo Olcese of UCLA about his group’s Paper of the Week “Metal-driven operation of the human large-conductance voltage- and Ca2+-dependent potassium channel (BK) gating ring apparatus.” The paper and their conversation covers the intriguing techniques used to uncover conformational changes in the powerful BK channel.Jul 7 2011 -- In this podcast we hear an interview by JBC Associate editor Jim Siedow with Riccardo Olcese of UCLA about his group’s Paper of the Week “Metal-driven operation of the human large-conductance voltage- and Ca2+-dependent potassium channel (BK) gating ring apparatus.” The paper and their conversation covers the intriguing techniques used to uncover conformational changes in the powerful BK channel.
