Role of the S3-S4 linker in Shaker potassium channel activation

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 191-199

  Mathur, Rajesh ^a,b   Zheng, Jie ^a   Yan, Yangyang ^a   Sigworth, Fred J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

mutagenesis; potassium channel; protein sequence; voltage clamp

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OOCYTES; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SHAKER SUPERFAMILY OF POTASSIUM CHANNELS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031041645     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.109.2.191     Document Type: Article

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