Cation permeability and cation-anion interactions in a mutant GABA-gated chloride channel from Drosophila

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 691-700

  Wang, Chih Tien ^a   Zhang, Hai Guang ^a,c   Rocheleau, Thomas A ^a   Ffrench Constant, Richard H ^a   Jackson, Meyer B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANION; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CATION; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHLORIDE ION; LYSINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM ION;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ION PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032812829     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)76924-9     Document Type: Article

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