Molecular motions of the outer ring of charge of the sodium channel: Do they couple to slow inactivation?

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-332

  Xiong, Wei ^a   Li, Ronald A ^a   Tian, Yanli ^a   Tomaselli, Gordon F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine mutagenesis; Disulfide bond; Electrophysiology; rNav1.4 channel

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; COPPER DERIVATIVE; CYSTEINE; DITHIOL DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLUTAMIC ACID; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PHENANTHROLINES; RATS; SODIUM CHANNELS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0141513676     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200308881     Document Type: Article

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