Functional characterization of a mutated chicken α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit with a leucine residue inserted in transmembrane domain 2

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 747-755

  Buckingham, Steven D ^a   Adcock, Charlotte ^b   Sansom, Mark S P ^b   Sattelle, David B ^a   Baylis, Howard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

7 subunit; Agonist affinity; Channel mutation; Desensitization; Levamisole; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nicotinic AChR)

Indexed keywords

DIHYDRO BETA ERYTHROIDINE; LEUCINE; LEVAMISOLE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; THREONINE; VALINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FEMALE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; DIHYDRO-BETA-ERYTHROIDINE; FEMALE; LEUCINE; LEVAMISOLE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031833124     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0701866     Document Type: Article

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