Tandem couture: Cys-loop receptor concatamer insights and caveats

Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 113-127

  Ericksen, Spencer S ^a   Boileau, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Concatamers concatemers; Concatenated proteins; Heterologous expression; Ligand gated ion channel; Tandem subunits

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYSTINE; DIAZEPAM; ETOMIDATE; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; LORECLEZOLE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOICHIOMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING; XENOPUS;

EID: 34347328231     PISSN: 08937648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02700627     Document Type: Article

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