Sodium-dependent neurotransmitter transporters: Oligomerization as a determinant of transporter function and trafficking

Molecular Interventions

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-47

  Sitte, Harald H ^a   Farhan, Hesso ^a   Javitch, Jonathan A ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRANSPORTER; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SODIUM ION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOICHIOMETRY; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DIMERIZATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SODIUM;

EID: 2542461709     PISSN: 15340384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mi.4.1.38     Document Type: Review

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