Macroscopic Na+ currents in the 'nonconducting' Shaker potassium channel mutant W434F

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-93

  Starkus, John G ^a,b   Kuschel, Lioba ^a   Rayner, Martin D ^c   Heinemann, Stefan H ^a  

^a Max Planck Research Unit   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel gating; Channel inactivation; Ion selectivity; Patch clamp; Potassium channels

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ION CURRENT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; SODIUM CURRENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SHAKER SUPERFAMILY OF POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SODIUM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031823743     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.112.1.85     Document Type: Article

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