Unnatural amino acid mutagenesis in mapping ion channel function

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 264-270

  Beene, Darren L ^a   Dougherty, Dennis A ^a   Lester, Henry A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYACID; AMINO ACID; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; FLUORESCENT DYE; ION CHANNEL; SEROTONIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TYROSINE;

BINDING SITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE MAPPING; GENE PROBE; LIGAND BINDING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; STOP CODON; XENOPUS;

EID: 0038383546     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(03)00068-0     Document Type: Review

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