Structure and function of glutamate receptor ion channels

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2004, Pages 161-181

  Mayer, Mark L ^a   Armstrong, Neali ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA; Channels; Crystallography; Kainate; NMDA; Structure

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; KAINIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 2342462388     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.66.050802.084104     Document Type: Review

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