Potassium channel structures: Do they conform?

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 440-446

  Gulbis, Jacqueline M ^a   Doyle, Declan A ^b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANISOTROPY; CALCIUM BINDING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEART FUNCTION; ION CURRENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIPID BILAYER; METHANOCOCCUS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSOR;

ION CHANNEL GATING; ION TRANSPORT; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4143053760     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.06.008     Document Type: Review

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