Pore stoichiometry of a voltage-gated chloride channel

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6694, 1998, Pages 687-690

  Fahlke, Christoph ^a   Rhodes, Thomas H ^a   Desai, Reshma R ^a   George Jr , Alfred L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE COPPER; CADMIUM; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHLORIDE ION; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY;

CADMIUM; CELL LINE; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CYSTEINE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MESYLATES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENANTHROLINES; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0032514480     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29319     Document Type: Article

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