Distinct conformational changes in activated agonist-bound and agonist-free glycine receptor subunits

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1585-1594

  Pless, Stephan A ^a   Lynch, Joseph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allosteric; Conformation; Cys loop receptor; Ligand gated ion channel; Structure function; Voltage clamp fluorometry

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR AGONIST; IVERMECTIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; WILD TYPE;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROINJECTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RNA, MESSENGER; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 61349128483     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.05930.x     Document Type: Article

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