A discrete alcohol pocket involved in GIRK channel activation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 988-995

  Aryal, Prafulla ^a,b   Dvir, Hay ^a   Choe, Senyon ^a,b   Slesinger, Paul A ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; G PROTEIN COUPLED INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROPHOBICITY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ETHANOL; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5-DIPHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS;

EID: 68149164775     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2358     Document Type: Article

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