Novel α7-like nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Protein Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1162-1171

  Mongan, Nigel P ^a,b   Jones, Andrew K ^a   Smith, Graham R ^c   Sansom, Mark S P ^c   Sattelle, David B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

7 subunit; Caenorhabditis elegans; Ion channel; Molecular modeling; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; ALPHA-BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HOMO; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0036010898     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.3040102     Document Type: Article

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