Multiple roles for the first transmembrane domain of GABAA receptor subunits in neurosteroid modulation and spontaneous channel activity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 473, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 242-247

  Baker, Carrie ^b   Sturt, Brianne L ^a   Bamber, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct activation; GABAA receptor; Neurosteroid; PS; Spontaneous opening; THDOC

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA, 21 DIHYDROXY 5BETA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROSTEROID; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE ACTION; MAMMAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREGNENOLONE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 77950338974     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.02.058     Document Type: Article

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