Atomic scale movement of the voltage-sensing region in a potassium channel measured via spectroscopy

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6763, 1999, Pages 809-813

  Cha, Albert ^a   Snyder, Gregory E ^b   Selvin, Paul R ^b   Bezanilla, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN MALEIMIDE; LANTHANIDE; MALEIMIDE; POTASSIUM; TERBIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

CYSTEINE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; ION CHANNEL GATING; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SHAKER SUPERFAMILY OF POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0033576580     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/45552     Document Type: Article

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