α-Scorpion toxin impairs a conformational change that leads to fast inactivation of muscle sodium channels

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 251-263

  Campos, Fabiana V ^a   Chanda, Baron ^c   Beirão, Paulo S L ^b   Bezanilla, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; CHANNEL GATING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCORPION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; OOCYTES; SCORPION VENOMS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; XENOPUS;

EID: 48649093428     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 00221295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200809995     Document Type: Article

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