Yue Liu, Junjun Tan, Jiahui Zhang, Chuanzhao Li, Yi Luo and Shuji Ye
Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 5903-5906
DOI:
10.1039/C8CC01533C,
Communication
We discovered for the first time that the influenza A virus M2TM tunes its conformational heterogeneity and structural plasticity to respond to environmental cues by undergoing a helix-to-loop transition, resolving controversies regarding the mechanism of proton conduction and plasticity of the M2TM in lipid bilayers.