Identification of channel-lining residues in the M2 membrane-spanning segment of the GABAA receptor α1 subunit

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 195-205

  Xu, Ming ^a   Akabas, Myles H ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; ION CURRENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; XENOPUS;

4-CHLOROMERCURIBENZENESULFONATE; ANIMALS; CHLOROMERCURIBENZOATES; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; FEMALE; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; IODOACETATES; IODOACETIC ACID; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTAGENS; OOCYTES; P-CHLOROMERCURIBENZOIC ACID; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SULFHYDRYL REAGENTS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0029865892     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.107.2.195     Document Type: Article

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