Hydroxylated residues influence desensitization behaviour of recombinant α3 glycine receptor channels

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 30-36

  Breitinger, Hans Georg ^a   Villmann, Carmen ^a   Rennert, Janine ^a   Ballhausen, Diana ^a,b   Becker, Cord Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Desensitization; Glycine receptor 3 subunit; Hydroxyl functions; Splice variants; Whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

ALPHA3 GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROXYLATION; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLYCINE; HUMANS; HYDROXYLATION; KIDNEY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0036789114     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2002.01109.x     Document Type: Article

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