Voltage-gated sodium channel organization in neurons: Protein interactions and trafficking pathways

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 486, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 92-100

  Leterrier, Christophe ^a,b   Brachet, Anna ^a,b   Fache, Marie Pierre ^a,b   Dargent, Bénédicte ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Axon initial segment; Nav; Nodes of Ranvier; Targeting; Trafficking; Voltage gated sodium channels

Indexed keywords

VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; RANVIER NODE; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DIFFUSION; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NEURONS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RANVIER'S NODES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 78049435050     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.08.079     Document Type: Review

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