The regulation and utilization of thermal energy is increasingly important in modern society
due to the growing demand for heating and cooling in applications ranging from buildings, to …

Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels are a family of ion channels whose members
are distributed among all kinds of animals, from invertebrates to vertebrates. The importance …

Numerous physiological functions rely on distinguishing temperature through temperature-
sensitive transient receptor potential channels (thermo-TRPs). Although the function of …

With recent growing interest in biomimetic smart nanochannels, a biological sensory
transduction in response to external stimuli has been of particular interest in the …

Vanilloid-subfamily TRP channels TRPV1-6 play important roles in various physiological
processes and are implicated in numerous human diseases. Advances in structural biology …

Conventional thermal biology has elucidated the physiological function of temperature
homeostasis through spontaneous thermogenesis and responses to variations in …

In search of the molecular identities of cold-sensing receptors, we carried out an unbiased
genetic screen for cold-sensing mutants in C. elegans and isolated a mutant allele of glr-3 …

The first genuine high-resolution single particle cryo-electron microscopy structure of a
membrane protein determined was a transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channel, TRPV1 …

Transient receptor potential (TRP) proteins are a large family of cation-selective channels,
surpassed in variety only by voltage-gated potassium channels. Detailed molecular …

Plants in most natural habitats are exposed to a continuously changing environment,
including fluctuating temperatures. Temperature variations can trigger acclimation or …