Identification and characterization of the vesicular GABA transporter

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6653, 1997, Pages 870-876

  McIntire, Steven L ^a   Reimer, Richard J ^a   Schuske, Kim ^b   Edwards, Robert H ^a   Jorgensen, Erik M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GABA PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURONS; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; PC12 CELLS; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0030734546     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39908     Document Type: Article

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