Pore residues critical for μ-CTX binding to rat skeletal muscle Na+ channels revealed by cysteine mutagenesis

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1874-1884

  Li, Ronald A ^a   Tsushima, Robert G ^a   Kallen, Roland G ^b   Backx, Peter H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; CYSTEINE; MESYLIC ACID; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THIOL GROUP; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SODIUM CURRENT; SURFACE CHARGE; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; TRIXIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030770381     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78218-3     Document Type: Article

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