Tracking voltage-dependent conformational changes in skeletal muscle sodium channel during activation

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 629-645

  Chanda, Baron ^a   Bezanilla, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational changes; Fluorescence; Gating currents; Sodium channel

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; CYSTEINE; ISOPROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLUORESCENCE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; ION CURRENT; ION TRANSPORT; KINETICS; MEASUREMENT; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SODIUM TRANSPORT; STEADY STATE; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COLD; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; XENOPUS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; COLD; CYSTEINE; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; FLUORESCENCE; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; SODIUM CHANNELS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0036846886     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.20028679     Document Type: Article

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