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Theorems are rarely used in biology because they rarely help the descriptive experimentation to which biologists are devoted. A generalization of Kirchoff’s current law—the Shockley-Ramo (SR) theorem [1–6]—seems an exception. SR allows interpretation of macroscopic scale ‘gating’ currents associated with atomic scale charge movements within proteins.
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Eisenberg, B., Nonner, W. Shockley-Ramo theorem measures conformation changes of ion channels and proteins. J Comput Electron 6, 363–365 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-006-0130-6
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