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Previous experiments have suggested that many P2X family channels undergo a time-dependent process of pore dilation when activated by ATP. Li et al. now propose a different interpretation of the key experiments.

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  1. Bruce P. Bean is in the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Bean, B. Pore dilation reconsidered. Nat Neurosci 18, 1534–1535 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4148

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