Structural features of the glutamate transporter family

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 293-307

  Slotboom, Dirk Jan ^a   Konings, Wil N ^a   Lolkema, Juke S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; ION CHANNEL; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

BINDING SITE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 0033032413     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.63.2.293-307.1999     Document Type: Review

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