A remarkable feature of univalent cation-selective channels is their ability to discriminate between ions of the same charge and similar size. The mechanism of K+ selectivity has been studied extensively. KcsA, the first K+ channel to be characterized by x-ray crystallography, has a narrow 12-A-
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