Charge immobilization caused by modification of internal cysteines in squid Na channels

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2821-2829

  Khodakhah, Kamran ^a   Melishchuk, Alexey ^b   Armstrong, Clay M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; SODIUM CURRENT; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SQUID;

CEPHALOPODA;

EID: 0031736454     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77725-2     Document Type: Article

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