Agonist gating and isoflurane potentiation in the human γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptor determined by the volume of a second transmembrane domain residue

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1087-1093

  Koltchine, Vladimir V ^c   Finn, Suzanne E ^c   Jenkins, Andrew ^a,c   Nikolaeva, Natalia ^b,c   Lin, Audrey ^c   Harrison, Neil L ^a,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; AMINO ACID; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; ISOFLURANE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SERINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

EID: 0032707446     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.56.5.1087     Document Type: Article

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