Functional asymmetry of transmembrane segments in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 685-693

  Grandl, Jörg ^a,b   Danelon, Christophe ^a   Hovius, Ruud ^a   Vogel, Horst ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EMBRYO; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MICROENVIRONMENT; PKA; POROSITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTON TRANSPORT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; LYSINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 33749241913     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-006-0078-2     Document Type: Article

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