Acetylcholine receptor gating: Movement in the α-subunit extracellular domain

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 569-579

  Purohit, Prasad ^a   Auerbach, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TORPEDO;

EID: 36549080807     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 00221295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200709858     Document Type: Article

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