How do acetylcholine receptor ligands reach their binding sites

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 902-910

  Sáez Briones, Patricio ^c   Krauss, Michael ^c   Dreger, Mathias ^c   Herrmann, Andreas ^c   Tsetlin, Victor I ^a   Hucho, Ferdinand ^b  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

neurotoxin; Binding sites; Membrane fluidity; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Photoaffinity labeling

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; NEUROTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; LIGAND BINDING; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOAFFINITY LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BUNGAROTOXINS; COBRA NEUROTOXINS; ELECTRIC ORGAN; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; PHOTOAFFINITY LABELS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TEMPERATURE; TORPEDO;

EID: 0000119680     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00787.x     Document Type: Article

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