NR3A modulates the outer vestibule of the "NMDA" receptor channel

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 51, 2006, Pages 13156-13166

  Wada, Akira ^a,d   Takahashi, Hiroto ^a,e   Lipton, Stuart A ^a,b   Chen, H S Vincent ^a,c  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Block; Glutamate; Ligand gated channel; Permeability; SCAM; Size filter

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; PROTEIN NR2; PROTEIN NR3A; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; THIOL DERIVATIVE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CYSTEINE; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OOCYTES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; XENOPUS;

EID: 33845753408     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2552-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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