A role for glycine in the gating of plant NMDA-like receptors

Plant Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 800-810

  Dubos, Christian ^a   Huggins, David ^a   Grant, Guy H ^a   Knight, Marc R ^a   Campbell, Malcolm M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcium; Glycine; Ionotropic glutamate receptors; NMDA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; IONS; NEUROLOGY;

GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS (GLR);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GLYCINE; HYPOCOTYL; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0141678885     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01849.x     Document Type: Article

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