A mechanism for touch

Edwin W. McCleskey ()

Nature, 2019, vol. 573, issue 7773, 199-200

Abstract: Piezo proteins mediate the sense of touch. A near-complete structure of one such protein has been obtained, and the mechanism for converting mechanical signals into electrical ones has been probed in another.

Keywords: Structural biology; Biophysics; Microscopy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02454-2 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:573:y:2019:i:7773:d:10.1038_d41586-019-02454-2

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-02454-2

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().