Mechanism of ion permeation in skeletal muscle chloride channels

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 551-564

  Fahlke, Christoph ^a,b   Dürr, Christine ^a,b   George Jr , Alfred L ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloride channel; Electrophysiology; Permeation; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

BROMIDE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHLORIDE ION; IODIDE ION; NITRATE; THIOCYANATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIONS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODIDES; ION CHANNEL GATING; IONS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OOCYTES; PERMEABILITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030665504     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.110.5.551     Document Type: Article

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