The neurosteroids dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and pregnenolone sulfate inhibit the UNC-49 GABA receptor through a common set of residues

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1322-1329

  Twede, Vernon ^b   Tartaglia, Anthony L ^a   Covey, Douglas F ^c   Bamber, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE; UNC 49 GABA RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENANTIOMER; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PREGNENOLONE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; XENOPUS;

EID: 35548985026     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.107.034058     Document Type: Article

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