Sodium channel activation gating is affected by substitutions of voltage sensor positive charges in all four domains

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 391-401

  Kontis, Kris J ^a,b   Rounaghi, Amir ^a   Goldin, Alan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Hycor Biomedical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Deactivation; Expression; Mutagenesis; Voltage sensor

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; SODIUM CURRENT; TRANSPORT KINETICS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; SODIUM CHANNELS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030963793     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.110.4.391     Document Type: Article

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