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Physical Biology: From Single Molecules to Systems Biology

Some Aspects of Ion-Channel

Biophysics

Claudio Grosman

B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Biophysics (Single ion-channels)

from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Postdoc., at the Center for Single-Molecule Biophysics, SUNY at Buffalo

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES

The extracellular and intracellular compartments have

NON POLAR (HYDROPHOBIC) TAILS

SYMBOL

The polar head

is “zwitterionic”