Electrostatic influences of charged inner pore residues on the conductance and gating of small conductance Ca2+ activated K+ channels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5946-5953

  Li, Weiyan ^a   Aldrich, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

KCa 2.2; KCNN2

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; SMALL CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHANNEL GATING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 79955011086     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103090108     Document Type: Article

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