Docking of μ-conotoxin GIIIA in the sodium channel outer vestibule

Channels

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 344-352

  Choudhary, Gaurav ^a   Aliste, Marcela P ^b   Tieleman, D Peter ^b   French, Robert J ^c   Dudley Jr , Samuel C ^d,e  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biological Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Ion channel; Molecular model; Mutational analysis; Structural biology; Toxin

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; CONOTOXIN G3; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; OOCYTE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SNAIL; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONOTOXINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SNAILS; SODIUM CHANNELS; XENOPUS;

EID: 55749096772     PISSN: 19336950     EISSN: 19336969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/chan.5112     Document Type: Article

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