Mapping the conformational wave of acetylcholine receptor channel gating

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6771, 2000, Pages 773-776

  Grosman, Claudio ^a   Zhou, Ming ^a   Auerbach, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUSCLE SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; CELL LINE; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUSCLES; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034677524     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35001586     Document Type: Article

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