Properties of human glycine receptors containing the hyperekplexia mutation α1 (K276E), expressed in Xenopus oocytes

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 507, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-40

  Lewis, T M ^a   Sivilotti, L G ^a   Colquhoun, D ^a   Gardiner, R M ^a   Schoepfer, R ^a   Rees, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; RECOMBINANT RECEPTOR; STRYCHNINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; LYSINE; PICROTOXIN; THREONINE; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; STARTLE REFLEX; XENOPUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BINDING SITE; DESENSITIZATION; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GLRA1 GENE; HILL COEFFICIENT; HYPEREKPLEXIA; ISOMERIZATION; KERNEL METHOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINGLE CHANNEL PATCH CLAMP; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OOCYTES; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; STARTLE REACTION; STRYCHNINE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032520102     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.025bu.x     Document Type: Article

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