Membrane tethering enables an extracellular domain of the acetylcholine receptor α subunit to form a heterodimeric ligand-binding site

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 809-817

  Wang, Zuo Zhong ^a,b   Hardy, Stephen F ^a   Hall, Zach W ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLYCOLIPID; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; LIGAND BINDING; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BREFELDIN A; BUNGAROTOXINS; COS CELLS; CYCLOPENTANES; DIMERIZATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LIGANDS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029852795     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.135.3.809     Document Type: Article

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