The binding site of acetylcholine receptor as visualized in the X-ray structure of a complex between α-bungarotoxin and a mimotope peptide

Neuron

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 265-275

  Harel, Michal ^a   Kasher, Roni ^a   Nicolas, Anne ^a   Guss, J Mitchell ^a   Balass, Moshe ^a   Fridkin, Mati ^a   Smit, August B ^b   Brejc, Katjuša ^c   Sixma, Titia K ^c   Katchalski Katzir, Ephraim ^a   Sussman, Joel L ^a   Fuchs, Sara ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 17944368301     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(01)00461-5     Document Type: Article

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