Operation of the voltage sensor of a human voltageand Ca 2+-activated K+ channel

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4459-4464

  Pantazis, Antonios ^a   Gudzenko, Vadym ^a   Savalli, Nicoletta ^a   Sigg, Daniel ^a   Olcese, Riccardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BK; Cooperativity; Fluorometry; MaxiK; Slo1

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; FLUOROMETRY; HUMAN; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR PROBE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; VOLTAGE CLAMP; VOLTAGE SENSOR DOMAIN;

HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 77749254814     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911959107     Document Type: Article

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