Mutating the highly conserved second membrane-spanning region 9' leucine residue in the α1 or β1 subunit produces subunit-specific changes in the function of human α1β1 γ-aminobutyric acid(A) receptors

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 875-882

  Dalziel, Julie E ^a,b   Cox, Graeme B ^a   Gage, Peter W ^a   Birnir, Bryndis ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALANINE; LEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DESENSITIZATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEPIDOPTERA; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABA AGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INSECTS; LEUCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUSCIMOL; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 0034112036     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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