The moving parts of voltage-gated ion channels

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 239-295

  Yellen, Gary ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CYSTEINE; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED CHANNEL FORMING PROTEIN;

CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS;

EID: 0032417420     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583598003448     Document Type: Review

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