{"id":770966,"date":"2023-10-31T16:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770966"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:19:03","slug":"unprecedented-artificial-potassium-channels-better-mimic-those-of-electric-eels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770966","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented artificial potassium channels better mimic those of electric eels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biological potassium ion channels allow selective permeation of larger K+ (ionic radius of 1.3 \u00c5) over smaller Na+ (1.0 \u00c5) with selectivity ratio over 1,000-fold. For decades, scientists have long sought to mimic these marvels in artificial systems, but have fallen far short of matching the exquisite ion discrimination of natural protein channels. Typically, the K+\/Na+ selectivity ratio of existing artificial potassium channels is less than 40-fold.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-unprecedented-artificial-potassium-channels-mimic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unprecedented artificial potassium channels better mimic those of electric eels<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biological potassium ion channels allow selective permeation of larger K+ (ionic radius of 1.3 \u00c5) over smaller Na+ (1.0 \u00c5) with selectivity ratio over 1,000-fold. For decades, scientists have long&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}