Cysteine-scanning mutagenesis of the fifth external loop of serotonin transporter

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 8510-8516

  Keller II, Preston C ^a   Stephan, Megan ^a   Glomska, Hanna ^a   Rudnick, Gary ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); ENZYMES; REACTION KINETICS; SODIUM; SUBSTRATES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CYSTEINE-SCANNING MUTAGENESIS; EXTERNAL LOOP; ION BINDING; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

MUTAGENESIS;

ALANINE; COCAINE; CYSTEINE; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; THIOMESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; THREONINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHIMERA; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SEROTONIN RELEASE;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; COCAINE; CYSTEINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPITOPES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IONS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MESYLATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SODIUM; THREONINE;

EID: 3142583008     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi035971g     Document Type: Article

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