Amino acids outside of the loops that define the agonist binding site are important for ligand binding to insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 224-230

  Liu, Zewen ^a   Han, Zhaojun ^a   Liu, Shuhua ^a   Zhang, Yixi ^a   Song, Feng ^a   Yao, Xiangmei ^a   Gu, Jianhua ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agonist site structure; Chimera; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Nilaparvata lugens

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BINDING PROTEIN; LIGAND; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BINDING SITE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; INSECT; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTS; LIGANDS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

HEXAPODA; NILAPARVATA LUGENS; RATTUS; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 45249101820     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2008.05359.x     Document Type: Article

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