Cyclic nucleotide-gated channels: Shedding light on the opening of a channel pore

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 643-651

  Flynn, Galen E ^a   Johnson Jr , J P ^a   Zagotta, William N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NUCLEOTIDES, CYCLIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 0035461292     PISSN: 14710048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35090015     Document Type: Review

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