Assembly of nicotinic and other Cys-loop receptors

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 734-741

  Tsetlin, Victor ^a   Kuzmin, Dmitry ^a   Kasheverov, Igor ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

acetylcholine receptor; acetylcholine binding protein; assembly; Cys loop receptors; glycine receptor; receptor domains

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CYSTEINE LOOP LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNEL RECEPTORS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; TORPEDO;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79851500104     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.07060.x     Document Type: Review

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