BK Channel News: Full Coverage on the Calcium Bowl

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 471-473

  Moczydlowski, Edward G ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; CALMODULIN; CATION; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; SODIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ION CHANNEL GATING; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 2342572339     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200409069     Document Type: Note

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