Identification of a Zn2+ binding site on the murine GABA(A) receptor complex: Dependence on the second transmembrane domain of β subunits

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 505, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 633-640

  Wooltorton, Julian R A ^a   McDonald, Bernard J ^b   Moss, Stephen J ^b   Smart, Trevor G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALANINE; CHLORIDE ION; HISTIDINE; PENTOBARBITAL; PICROTOXININ; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT RECEPTOR; ZINC ION; ION CHANNEL; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; ZINC; ANION CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHLORIDE CONDUCTANCE; CHLORIDE CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; BETA CHAIN; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; IC50; MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; HISTIDINE; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZINC;

EID: 0031574240     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.633ba.x     Document Type: Article

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