Mechanisms of sodium/calcium selectivity in sodium channels probed by cysteine mutagenesis and sulfhydryl modification

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 989-996

  Pérez García, M Teresa ^a,c   Chiamvimonvat, Nipavan ^a,b   Ranjan, Ravi ^a   Balser, Jeffrey R ^a   Tomaselli, Gordon F ^a   Marban, Eduardo ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c Facultad de Medicine   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CYSTEINE; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNEL; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PATCH CLAMP; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0342276136     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78751-4     Document Type: Article

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