So, that is just a quick example for some of you, you might be very familiar with ion channels, others might not know what these are, so I'll just tell you quite briefly that ion channels are these very massive transmembrane proteins.

这对你们中的某些人来说仅仅是个小例子，有些人可能已经非常熟悉离子通道这个概念了，但有些人可能还不清楚，那么就让我来简单地介绍一下离子通道,就是这些巨大的跨膜蛋白。

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The one that's on the top here is called ligand-gated ion channel and an ion channel is a protein that sits in the surface of a cell.

最上面的这个叫作配体门控离子通道,离子通道是一类位于细胞表面的蛋白

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