Probing the outer mouth structure of the hERG channel with peptide toxin footprinting and molecular modeling

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3524-3540

  Tseng, Gea Ny ^a   Sonawane, Kailas D ^b,d   Korolkova, Yuliya V ^c   Zhang, Mei ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Grishin, Eugene V ^c   Guy, H Robert ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE BEKM 1; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34247847889     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.097360     Document Type: Article

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