Channels in microbes: So many holes to fill

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 373-380

  Kung, Ching ^a   Blount, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; HEAT TREATMENT; LIGAND BINDING; LIPID BILAYER; MECHANICAL STRESS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SODIUM CHANNELS;

ANIMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3242887060     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04180.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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