Functional characterization of mongoose nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α-subunit: Resistance to α-bungarotoxin and high sensitivity to acetylcholine

FEBS Letters

Volumn 431, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 411-414

  Asher, Orna ^a   Lupu Meiri, Monica ^b   Jensen, Bo S ^a   Paperna, Tamar ^a   Fuchs, Sara ^a   Oron, Yoram ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bungarotoxin; Acetylcholine; Acetylcholine receptor; Mongoose; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; NEUROTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; SNAKE VENOM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BUNGAROTOXINS; HERPESTIDAE; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0032563183     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(98)00805-9     Document Type: Article

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