Subunit-selective N-terminal domain associations organize the formation of AMPA receptor heteromers

EMBO Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 959-971

  Rossmann, Maxim ^a   Sukumaran, Madhav ^a   Penn, Andrew C ^a,c   Veprintsev, Dmitry B ^b   Babu, M Madan ^a   Greger, Ingo H ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

AMPA receptor assembly; AMPA receptor function; crystallography; N terminal domain

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR AFFINITY;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; CALCIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPSES; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 79952280700     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.16     Document Type: Article

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