Splicing of α(1A) subunit gene generates phenotypic variants of P- and Q-type calcium channels

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 407-415

  Bourinet, Emmanuel ^a   Soong, Tuck W ^b,d   Sutton, Kathy ^b   Slaymaker, Sarah ^b   Mathews, Eleanor ^b   Monteil, Arnaud ^a   Zamponi, Gerald W ^c   Nargeot, Joel ^a   Snutch, Terry P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; OMEGA AGATOXIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; DNA LIBRARY; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MIGRAINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OMEGA-AGATOXIN IVA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN KINASE C; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; SPIDER VENOMS; VARIATION (GENETICS); XENOPUS;

EID: 0033365622     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/8070     Document Type: Article

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