Important amino acids for the function of the human MT1 melatonin receptor

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1463-1471

  Kokkola, Tarja ^a   Foord, Steven M ^c   Watson, Marie Ange ^c   Vakkuri, Olli ^b   Laitinen, Jarmo T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constitutively active; G protein coupled receptor; Melatonin receptor; Receptor ELISA; Rhodopsin based model; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

2 IODOMELATONIN; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; LIGAND; MELATONIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS7; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0038741910     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(03)00113-8     Document Type: Article

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