Structure of a glutamate transporter homologue from Pyrococcus horikoshii

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7010, 2004, Pages 811-818

  Yernool, Dinesh ^a   Boudker, Olga ^a   Jin, Yan ^a   Gouaux, Eric ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONS; IONS; MEMBRANES; SOLVENTS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ION GRADIENTS; MEMBRANE BILAYERS;

CATALYSTS;

GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SOLVENT;

BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EPILEPSY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; ION CURRENT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STROKE; SYNAPSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII;

EUKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII;

EID: 7244254186     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03018     Document Type: Review

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