Amino terminal-dependent gating of the potassium channel rat eag is compensated by a mutation in the S4 segment

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 502, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 537-543

  Terlau, Heinrich ^a   Heinemann, Stefan H ^b   Stühmer, Walter ^a   Pongs, Olaf ^c   Ludwig, Jost ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b Max Planck Arbeitsgruppe Molek Z   (Germany)

^c ZMNH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HISTIDINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; RAT EAG POTASSIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; XENOPUS; POINT MUTATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030859332     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.537bj.x     Document Type: Article

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