Coupling substrate and ion binding to extracellular gate of a sodium-dependent aspartate transporter

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7126, 2007, Pages 387-393

  Boudker, Olga ^a,c   Ryan, Renae M ^a,d   Yernool, Dinesh ^a,e   Shimamoto, Keiko ^b   Gouaux, Eric ^a,f  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b SUNTORY INSTITUTE FOR BIOORGANIC RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ASPARTATE TRANSPORTER; ASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DEXTRO THREO BETA BENZYLOXYASPARTATE; SODIUM; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASPARTIC ACID; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BINDING; COUPLING; PROTEIN; SODIUM; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33846505059     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05455     Document Type: Article

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