Oxidation of an engineered pore cysteine locks a voltage-gated K+ channel in a nonconducting state

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3083-3090

  Zhang, Hui Juan ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Zühlke, Roger D ^a   Joho, Rolf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OXIDATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029731357     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79502-4     Document Type: Article

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