Movement of the s4 segment in the herg potassium channel during membrane depolarization

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 435-447

  Elliott, David J S ^a   Dondas, Naciye Y ^b   Munsey, Tim S ^a   Sivaprasadarao, Asipu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Herg; Potassium channel; S4 motion; Voltage sensing

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 70350780324     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: 14645203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09687680903321081     Document Type: Article

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