Structure and function of voltage-gated sodium channels

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 508, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 647-657

  Marban, Eduardo ^a   Yamagishi, Toshio ^a   Tomaselli, Gordon F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

CHANNEL GATING; DEPOLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; GENE DUPLICATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ION CHANNEL GATING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0031896768     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.647bp.x     Document Type: Review

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