Complementary regulation of anaesthetic activation of human (α6β3γ(2L)) and Drosophila (RDL) GABA receptors by a single amino acid residue

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 515, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-18

  Pistis, Marco ^a   Belelli, Delia ^a   McGurk, Karen ^a   Peters, John A ^a   Lambert, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMINO ACID; ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHIONINE; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA3;

ALLOSTERISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DRUG POTENCY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG BINDING SITE; INSECT CELL; MUTANT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0033557760     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.003ad.x     Document Type: Article

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