Ferroelectric liquid crystal models of voltage-dependent ion channels are discussed quantitatively. The consequences of the hypothesis that the gating mechanism of ion channels is a transition of a ferroelectric liquid crystal component of a biomembrane, in which the tilt angle of the S4 segments decreases to zero, are analyzed.
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Vladimir Sergeevich Bystrov (1997) studied this question.
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