A conserved disulfide loop facilitates conformational maturation in the subunits of the acetylcholine receptor

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 289-300

  Walcott, Elisabeth C ^a   Sumikawa, Katumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Assembly signal; Disulfide loop; Post translational processing; Torpedo; bungarotoxin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYSTEINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TORPEDO; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030571057     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-328X(96)00122-2     Document Type: Article

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