Cholesterol interacts with transmembrane α-helices M1, M3, and M4 of the torpedo nicotinic acetylcholine receptor: Photolabeling studies using [ 3H]azichoiesterol

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 976-986

  Hamouda, Ayman K ^a   Chiara, David C ^b   Sauls, Daniel ^a   Cohen, Jonathan B ^b   Blanton, Michael P ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIPIDS; MEMBRANES; PROTEINS;

ACIDIC RESIDUES; BINDING DOMAIN; LIPID-PROTEIN INTERFACE; TRANSMEMBRANE HELIX;

CHOLESTEROL;

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AZICHOLESTEROL; CARBACHOL; CHOLESTEROL DERIVATIVE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEINASE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; EDMAN DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHOTOAFFINITY LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOTOAFFINITY LABELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; TORPEDO; TRITIUM;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

EID: 31044432386     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi051978h     Document Type: Article

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