Gating at the mouth of the acetylcholine receptor channel: Energetic consequences of mutations in the αM2-Cap

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Bafna, Pallavi A ^a   Purohit, Prasad G ^a   Auerbach, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN M2; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CONDUCTANCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOMERIZATION; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TORPEDO;

VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TORPEDO;

EID: 49649099967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002515     Document Type: Article

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