Probing the structure of the diphtheria toxin channel: Reactivity in planar lipid bilayer membranes of cysteine-substituted mutant channels with methanethiosulfonate derivatives

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 229-242

  Huynh, Paul D ^a   Cui, Can ^b   Zhan, Hangjun ^b,c   Oh, Kyoung Joon ^b   Collier, R John ^b   Finkelstein, Alan ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Arris Pharmaceutical Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel conductance; Channel flickering; Helical hairpin; Streptavidin; Subunits

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; ION CHANNEL; MESYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ION TRANSPORT; LIPID BILAYER; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; ION CHANNELS; LIPID BILAYERS; MESYLATES; MUTATION; STEREOISOMERISM; THIOSULFONIC ACIDS;

EID: 0030886648     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.110.3.229     Document Type: Article

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