Formation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor binding sites

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 5555-5564

  Green, William N ^a   Wanamaker, Christian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Ligand binding sites; Nicotinic receptors; Pharmacology; Protein folding and assembly; bungarotoxin

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR BINDING;

EID: 0032145364     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-15-05555.1998     Document Type: Article

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