Crystal Structure of the GluR2 Amino-Terminal Domain Provides Insights into the Architecture and Assembly of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 392, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1125-1132

  Clayton, Amber ^a   Siebold, Christian ^a   Gilbert, Robert J C ^a   Sutton, Geoffrey C ^a   Harlos, Karl ^a   McIlhinney, R A Jeffrey ^b   Jones, E Yvonne ^a   Aricescu, A Radu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cell surface receptor; crystal structure; glutamate receptor; ion channel; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; DIMER; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, AMPA;

EID: 70149087712     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.07.082     Document Type: Article

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