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Porins form aqueous channels that aid the diffusion of small hydrophilic molecules across the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. The crystal structures of matrix porin and phosphoporin both reveal trimers of identical subunits, each subunit consisting of a 16-stranded anti-parallel β-barrel containing a pore. A long loop inside the barrel contributes to a constriction of the channel where the charge distribution affects ion selectivity. The structures explain at the molecular level functional characteristics and their alterations by known mutations.
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Cowan, S., Schirmer, T., Rummel, G. et al. Crystal structures explain functional properties of two E. coli porins. Nature 358, 727–733 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/358727a0
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