Page 147 - The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Scientists who first meas ured the volt age chan ges
that occur in the ion chan nels arrived at aston ish ing
results. The 16 December, 2000 edi tion of Nature mag a -
zine announced that the amino acids in the volt age recep -
tor did not make sim ple two-way move ments, as had
pre vi ous ly been thought. On the con tra ry, behave like
keys turn ing in a lock.
Professor of Physics Paul Selvin of Illinois University
refers to the results of their research:

The nerve cell mem brane con tains spe cial cav i ties or chan nels
that reg u late the flow of sodi um and potas si um ions. The
chan nels open and close like gates, depend ing on the volt age
in the mem brane, for which rea son they con trol the man u fac -
ture and dis sem i na tion of nerve impuls es. Our aim in this
study was to dis cov er how the ion chan nels detect volt age
change and how the amino acids in the volt age detect ors in the
chan nels behave as these open and close. . . . In our view, the
amino acids form cleft-like folds on the cell mem brane. The
rota tion amends the chem i cal entry of the charge inside the
cell to the char ges out side it. Thus a small action can have
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Francisco Bezanilla of California University refers to
the com plex struc ture of the volt age-gates in ion chan -
nels:

We marked spe cif ic amino acids in the ion chan nel and meas -
ured the change in dis tance accord ing to the func tion of the
volt age on the mem brane... Astonishingly, some of these
amino acids moved away while other drew clos er; and some
did not move at all. These move ments can not be explained as
sim ple actions with the up-and-down motion of the pump in

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