The benzodiazepine binding pocket of recombinant α1β2γ2 γ- aminobutyric acid(A) receptors: Relative orientation of ligands and amino acid side chains

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1097-1105

  Sigel, Erwin ^a   Schaerer, Martin T ^a   Buhr, Andreas ^a   Baur, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

3 METHYL 6 (3 TRIFLUOROMETHYLPHENYL) 1,2,4 TRIAZOLO[4,3 B]PYRIDAZINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 ETHYL 6,7 DIMETHOXY BETA CARBOLINE 3 CARBOXYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; AMINO ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE; BRETAZENIL; DIAZEPAM; FLUMAZENIL; FLUNITRAZEPAM; ION CHANNEL; LIGAND; MIDAZOLAM; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RADIOLIGAND; ZOLPIDEM;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; KIDNEY CELL; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR MODEL; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032407484     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.54.6.1097     Document Type: Article

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