Specificity of cholesterol and analogs to modulate BK channels points to direct sterol-channel protein interactions

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-110

  Bukiya, Anna N ^a   Belani, Jitendra D ^b   Rychnovsky, Scott ^b   Dopico, Alex M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; STEROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; LIPID BILAYER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL; ION CHANNEL GATING; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; LIPID BILAYERS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RATS; STEROLS;

EID: 78650905628     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201010519     Document Type: Article

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