Coupled and uncoupled gating and desensitization effects by pore domain mutations in GABAA receptors

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 8411-8421

  Scheller, Michaela ^a   Forman, Stuart A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Desensitization; Electrophysiology; GABA receptor; Gating; Ion channel; Pore

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SERINE; THREONINE;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION TRANSPORT; LIGAND BINDING; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036813523     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-19-08411.2002     Document Type: Article

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