Crystal structure of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor homolog AChBP in complex with an α-conotoxin PnIA variant

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 582-588

  Celie, Patrick H N ^a   Kasheverov, Igor E ^b   Mordvintsev, Dmitry Y ^b   Hogg, Ronald C ^c   Van Nierop, Pim ^d   Van Elk, René ^d   Van Rossum Fikkert, Sarah E ^a   Zhmak, Maxim N ^b   Bertrand, Daniel ^c   Tsetlin, Victor ^b   Sixma, Titia K ^a   Smit, August B ^d  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE BINDING PROTEIN; ALPHA CONOTOXIN PNIA; CONOTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ION TRANSPORT; LIGAND BINDING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONOTOXINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; NEURONS; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SNAILS; XENOPUS;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 22144470470     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb951     Document Type: Article

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