Stoichiometry of a recombinant GABA(A) receptor

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 5415-5424

  Chang, Yongchang ^a   Wang, Ruoping ^a   Barot, Sonal ^a   Weiss, David S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; ion channel; mutagenesis; receptor; stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LEUCINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STOICHIOMETRY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029664746     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-17-05415.1996     Document Type: Article

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