Histidine 186 of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α subunit requires the presence of the 192-193 disulfide bridge to interact with α-bungarotoxin

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-33

  Testai, Fernando D ^a   Venera, Graciela D ^a   Peña, Clara ^a   Biscoglio De Jiménez Bonino, Mirtha J ^a  

^a Instituto de Quimica y Fisicoquimica Biologicas Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

Author keywords

bungarotoxin nicotinic receptor interaction; Ligand gated ionic channels; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Nicotinic receptor histidine residues; Nicotinic receptor structure function relationship

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ORGAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR BINDING; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BUNGAROTOXINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DISULFIDES; ELECTRIC ORGAN; HISTIDINE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; TORPEDO;

TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

EID: 0033992594     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-0186(99)00099-6     Document Type: Article

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