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ion within the pore. Thus, multiple E106A substitutions in the Orai1 hexamer may promote an alternative "trimer-of-dimers" channel configuration in which the C-terminal E106A subunits are excluded from the hexameric core. Our results argue strongly against a tetrameric configuration for Orai1 channels and indicate that the Orai1 channel functions as a hexamer.
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