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Electron cryo-microscopy structures of GluA1 AMPA receptors from Ingo Greger’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division reveals that previously unseen structural flexibility of N-terminal domains is crucial for regulating the open-close speed of ion channel gates and recruiting the receptor into synapses.