Gel-based mass spectrometric analysis of a strongly hydrophobic GABAA-receptor subunit containing four transmembrane domains

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1093-1102

  Kang, Sung Ung ^a   Fuchs, Karoline ^b   Sieghart, Werner ^b   Pollak, Arnold ^a   Csaszar, Edina ^c   Lubec, Gert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^c MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA 1 SUBUNIT; CHYMOTRYPSIN; SUBTILISIN; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; GELS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 68149165613     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.92     Document Type: Article

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