The tetrodotoxin binding site is within the outer vestibule of the sodium channel

Marine Drugs

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-234

  Fozzard, Harry A ^a   Lipkind, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Marine toxins; Molecular modeling; Na channels

Indexed keywords

SAXITOXIN; TETRODOTOXIN; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; GENE MUTATION; IC 50; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77649213717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md8020219     Document Type: Review

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