Spermine Is Fit to Block Inward Rectifier (Kir) Channels

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 481-484

  Stanfield, Peter R ^a   Sutcliffe, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; NONAMETHYLENEBISAMINE; POLYAMINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CHANNEL BLOCKING; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE 4; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; KIR2.1 GENE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; SPERMINE;

EID: 0242667036     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200308957     Document Type: Note

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