How does voltage open an ion channel?

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 22, Issue , 2006, Pages 23-52

  Tombola, Francesco ^a,c   Pathak, Medha M ^a   Isacoff, Ehud Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperativity; Coupling; Lipid; Potassium channels; Voltage gating

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM;

CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; MAMMAL CELL; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ION CHANNEL GATING; LIPID METABOLISM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33751192493     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.21.020404.145837     Document Type: Review

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