Interaction between tetraethylammonium and permeant cations at the inactivation gate of the HERG potassium channel

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-34

  Shimizu, Hirofumi ^a   Toyoshima, Chikashi ^b   Oiki, Shigetoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomalous mole fraction effect; Ion selectivity; Kinetics; Selectivity filter; Xenopus oocytes

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN HERG; TETRYLAMMONIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHANNEL GATING; DEPOLARIZATION; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CATIONS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; POROSITY; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0242432457     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.53.25     Document Type: Article

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