Embedded cholesterol in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 38, 2008, Pages 14418-14423

  Brannigan, Grace ^a   Hénin, Jérôme ^a   Law, Richard ^b   Eckenhoff, Roderic ^a   Klein, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cys loop receptor; Ligand gated ion channel; Protein lipid interaction

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY;

BINDING SITES; CHOLESTEROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; WATER;

EID: 55749104248     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803029105     Document Type: Article

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