Point-mutations related to the loss of batrachotoxin binding abolish the grayanotoxin effect in Na+ channel isoforms

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 457-461

  Ishii, Hidemasa ^a   Kinoshita, Eiji ^a   Kimura, Takahiro ^a   Yakehiro, Masuhide ^a,b   Yamaoka, Kaoru ^a   Imoto, Keiji ^a,c   Mori, Yasuo ^a,c   Seyama, Issei ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

GTX; Na+ channel; Site specific mutant

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BATRACHOTOXIN; GRAYANOTOXIN; SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POINT MUTATION; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SODIUM CURRENT;

EID: 0032762396     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.49.457     Document Type: Article

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