State-dependent cross-linking of the M2 and M3 segments: Functional basis for the alignment of GABAA and acetylcholine receptor M3 segments

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4492-4499

  Jansen, Michaela ^a   Akabas, Myles H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Disulfide cross linking; GABAA receptor; Glycine; Ion channel; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; COPPER; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENANTHROLINE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSS LINKING; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRIC CURRENT; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OOCYTE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DISULFIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33646828912     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0224-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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