Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors from drosophila: Two different types of α subunits coassemble within the same receptor complex

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2537-2546

  Schulz, Regine ^a,c   Bertrand, Sonia ^b   Chamaon, Kathrin ^a   Smalla, Karl Heinz ^a   Gundelfinger, Eckart D ^a   Bertrand, Daniel ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bungarotoxin; Functional expression; Immunoprecipitation; Insect; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Subunit composition; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; DIHYDRO BETA ERYTHROIDINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INSECT; NEUROPIL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; XENOPUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BUNGAROTOXINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; OOCYTES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; VASODILATOR AGENTS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034110016     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2000.0742537.x     Document Type: Article

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