Acetylcholine binding protein (AChBP): A secreted glial protein that provides a high-resolution model for the extracellular domain of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 32, Issue , 2003, Pages 311-334

  Sixma, Titia K ^a   Smit, August B ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

5HT3; Cys loop; GABAA; Glycine receptor; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ACETYLCHOLINE BINDING PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; GLIA CELL; LIGAND BINDING; MOLLUSC; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROGLIA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SNAILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0041352143     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.32.110601.142536     Document Type: Review

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