Determination of α-conotoxin binding modes on neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 339-347

  Dutertre, Sébastien ^a   Nicke, Annette ^a,b   Tyndall, Joel D A ^a   Lewis, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

conotoxins; Docking; Homology modeling; Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Indexed keywords

4 (2 HYDROXYETHYL) 1 PIPERAZINEETHANESULFONIC ACID; CONOTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONOTOXINS; HEPES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

GASTROPODA; SERPENTES;

EID: 3042572680     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmr.683     Document Type: Article

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