Amino acids within residues 181-200 of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α1 subunit involved in nicotine binding

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 341-347

  Lentz, Thomas L ^a   Chaturvedi, Vijaya ^a   Conti Fine, Bianca M ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Amino acids; Fusion proteins; Nicotine; Structure function relationships; Synthetic peptides

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOTOPE LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TORPEDO; TRITIUM;

EID: 0032008103     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(97)00474-7     Document Type: Article

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