The heterotetrameric architecture of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC)

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 344-352

  Firsov, Dmitri ^a   Gautschi, Ivan ^a   Merillat, Anne Marie ^a   Rossier, Bernard C ^a   Schild, Laurent ^a  

^a University of Lausanne Departement de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amiloride; Channel pore; ENaC; Epithelial sodium channel; Subunit stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; EPITHELIUM; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SODIUM BALANCE; STOICHIOMETRY;

AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; LIGANDS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MUTAGENESIS; OOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032518665     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.2.344     Document Type: Article

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