α-Bungarotoxin receptors contain α7 subunits in two different disulfide-bonded conformations

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 203-217

  Rakhilin, Sergey ^a,b   Drisdel, Renaldo C ^a   Sagher, Daphna ^a   McGehee, Daniel S ^a   Vallejo, Yolanda ^a   Green, William N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bungarotoxin; 7 subunits; Disulfide bonds; Nicotinic receptors; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BUNGAROTOXINS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; DISULFIDES; ETHYLMALEIMIDE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NICOTINE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT3; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033549478     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.146.1.203     Document Type: Article

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