The three-dimensional structure of an ionotropic glutamate receptor reveals a dimer-of-dimers assembly

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 435-442

  Tichelaar, Willem ^a   Safferling, Markus ^a   Keinänen, Kari ^b   Stark, Holger ^c   Madden, Dean R ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA receptor; electron microscopy; GluRB; ion channel gating; ionotropic glutamate receptor

Indexed keywords

DIMER; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ION CONDUCTANCE; MEASUREMENT; MEMBRANE; MOLECULE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STAINING;

EID: 7444240214     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.09.048     Document Type: Article

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